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The role of vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) therapy in the management of FOURNIER'S gangrene: a retrospective multi-institutional cohort study.

ABSTRACT: PURPOSE:To explore the role of vacuum assisted closure (VAC) therapy versus conventional dressings in the Fournier's gangrene wound therapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:This is a retrospective multi-institutional cohort study. Data of 92 patients from nine centers between 2007 and 2018 were retrospectively analyzed. After surgery, patient having a local or a disseminated FG were managed with VAC therapy or with conventional dressings. The 10-weeks wound closure cumulative rate and OS were analyzed. RESULTS:Of the 92 patients, 62 (67.4%) showed local and 30 (32.6%) a disseminated FG. After surgery, 19 patients (20.7%) with local and 14 (15.2%) with disseminated FG underwent to VAC therapy; 43 (46.7%) with local and 16 (17.4%) with disseminated FG were treated using conventional dressings. The multivariable logistic regression analysis demonstrated that the VAC in patients with disseminated FG led to a higher cumulative rate of wound closure than patients treated with no-VAC (OR?=?6.5; 95% CI 1.1-37.4, p?=?0.036). The Kaplan-Meier survival curves for the OS showed a significant difference between no-VAC patients with local and disseminated FG (OS rate at 90 days 0.90, 95% CI 0.71-0.97 vs 0.55, 95% CI 0.24-0.78, respectively; p?=?0.039). Cox regression confirmed that no-VAC patients with disseminated FG showed the lowest OS (hazard ratio adjusted for sex and age HR?=?3.4, 95% CI 1.1-10.4; p?=?0.033). CONCLUSIONS:In this large cohort study, VAC therapy in patients with disseminated FG may offer an advantage in terms of 10-weeks wound closure cumulative rate and OS at 90 days after initial surgery.

SUBMITTER: Iacovelli V

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7223519 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The role of vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) therapy in the management of FOURNIER'S gangrene: a retrospective multi-institutional cohort study.

Iacovelli Valerio V Cipriani Chiara C Sandri Marco M Filippone Roberta R Ferracci Antonella A Micali Salvatore S Rocco Bernardo B Puliatti Stefano S Ferrarese Paolo P Benedetto Giuseppe G Minervini Andrea A Cocci Andrea A Pastore Antonio Luigi AL Al Salhi Yazan Y Antonelli Alessandro A Morena Tonino T Volpe Alessandro A Poletti Filippo F Celia Antonio A Zeccolini Guglielmo G Leonardo Costantino C Proietti Flavia F Finazzi Agrò Enrico E Bove Pierluigi P

World journal of urology 20200331 1

<h4>Purpose</h4>To explore the role of vacuum assisted closure (VAC) therapy versus conventional dressings in the Fournier's gangrene wound therapy.<h4>Patients and methods</h4>This is a retrospective multi-institutional cohort study. Data of 92 patients from nine centers between 2007 and 2018 were retrospectively analyzed. After surgery, patient having a local or a disseminated FG were managed with VAC therapy or with conventional dressings. The 10-weeks wound closure cumulative rate and OS wer ...[more]

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Project description:BackgroundNecrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTI) require immediate radical debridement, broad-spectrum antibiotics and intensive care. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) may be performed adjunctively, but unequivocal evidence for its benefits is still lacking.MethodsWe performed a retrospective single-center study including 192 patients with necrotizing fasciitis or Fournier's gangrene to assess in-hospital mortality and outcome dependent on patient, disease and treatment characteristics with or without HBOT.ResultsThe in-hospital mortality rate was 27.6%. Factors associated with increased mortality according to multivariate analysis were higher age, affection of multiple or problem localizations (odds ratio (OR) = 2.88, P = 0.003), ineligibility for HBOT despite clinical indication (OR = 8.59, P = 0.005), pathogens in blood cultures (OR = 3.36, P = 0.002), complications (OR = 10.35, P < 0.001) and sepsis/organ dysfunction (OR = 19.58, P < 0.001). Factors associated with better survival included vacuum-assisted wound closure (OR = 0.17, P < 0.001), larger number of debridements (OR = 0.83, P < 0.001) and defect closure with mesh graft (OR = 0.06, P < 0.001) or flap (OR = 0.09, P = 0.024). When participants were stratified into subgroups without requirement of HBOT (n = 98), treated with HBOT (n = 83) and ineligible for HBOT due to contraindications (n = 11), the first two groups had similar survival rates (75.5% vs. 73.5%) and comparable outcome, although patients with HBOT suffered from more severe NSTI, reflected by more frequent affection of multiple localizations (P < 0.001), sepsis at admission (P < 0.001) and intensive care treatment (P < 0.001), more debridements (P < 0.001) and a larger number of antibiotics (P = 0.001). In the subgroup ineligible for HBOT, survival was significantly worse (36.4%, P = 0.022).ConclusionThese results point to a benefit from HBOT for treatment of NSTI in critically ill patients.

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The role of vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) therapy in the management of FOURNIER'S gangrene: a retrospective multi-institutional cohort study.

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The role of vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) therapy in the management of FOURNIER'S gangrene: a retrospective multi-institutional cohort study.

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