Intra-abdominal Hypertension and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Physiology and Pathology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 19829
Special Issue Editors
Interests: abdominal pressure; abdominal hypertension; abdominal compartment; monitoring; hemodynamics; ventilation; critical care; ICU; sepsis; fluids
Interests: hemodynamic monitoring; perioperative outcomes; vasoactive use in the ICU; prediction and prevention of hypotension; big data analytics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Unlike many commonly encountered disease processes, which remain within the purview of a given discipline, intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) and abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) readily cross the usual barriers and may occur in any patient population, regardless of age, illness, or injury. As a result, no one scientific society or association can represent the wide variety of physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other allied healthcare personnel who might encounter patients with IAH and/or ACS in their daily practice. To fill this void, the Abdominal Compartment Society (formerly known as the World Society on Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (WSACS, www.wsacs.org)) has been founded to serve as a peer-reviewed forum and educational resource for all healthcare providers, as well as industries, who have an interest in IAH and ACS. The mission of the WSACS is to foster education, promote research, and thereby improve the survival of patients with IAH and ACS by bringing together physicians, nurses, and others from throughout the world and from a variety of clinical disciplines.
We invite investigators to contribute original research articles or review articles that will stimulate continuing efforts to understand the etiology, epidemiology, pathophysiology and management of patients with IAH and ACS. We are particularly interested in articles describing the effects of new modalities for the clinical and surgical management of IAH and ACS, as well as the long-term effects of these treatments on patient outcome and quality of life. We also welcome animal research on the pathophysiologic and molecular mechanisms of IAH and ACS.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Definitions and guidelines;
- New measurement techniques for intra-abdominal pressure (IAP): bladder vs. gastric vs. other noninvasive measurement techniques;
- Epidemiology and risk factors for IAH;
- How to measure intraabdominal volume and abdominal wall compliance;
- Relationship between body anthropometric data, central obesity, body mass index and IAP;
- IAH and pregnancy;
- IAH and other diseases: kidney disease, heart failure, hematologic complications, neurological disorders, etc.;
- Organ–organ crosstalk;
- Abdominal sepsis and severe acute pancreatitis;
- Imaging in ACS: the role for ultrasound or CT;
- Cardiovascular effects of IAH (in particular the role of barometric vs. volumetric preload indicators, fluid responsiveness and cardiac ultrasound);
- Renal effects of IAH (the role of abdominal perfusion pressure and filtration gradient, or the role of biomarkers such as NGAL or cystatin C in IAH);
- Central nervous system effects of IAH (and polycompartment syndrome);
- Effects of IAH on hepatosplanchnic perfusion (indocyanine green clearance, gastric tonometry, etc.);
- Respiratory effects of IAH (VILI, recruitment, PV loops, best PEEP, transpulmonary pressures, etc.);
- Medical management (improvement of abdominal wall compliance, evacuation of abdominal fluid collections, evacuation of intraluminal contents, correction of capillary leak and fluid management);
- Primary vs. secondary IAH;
- Recurrent IAH;
- Surgical management: decompressive laparotomy, open abdomen, temporary abdominal closure, vacuum-assisted closure.
Prof. Dr. Manu Malbrain
Dr. Ashish Kumar Khanna
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- abdominal pressure
- abdominal hypertension
- abdominal compartment syndrome
- IAP measurement
- complications
- definitions
- guidelines
- monitoring
- treatment
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