Use of Avascular Rectus Abdominus Fascia for Abdominal Closure in Transplantation

Allotransplantation of donor rectus fascia for abdominal wall closure in transplant patients: A systematic review

“…The search resulted in a total of 59 abstracts, including 2 additional abstracts found in the second search [2,10]. Another 4 abstracts were identified through other sources [8,14,19,20], namely congress proceedings and reference scanning. In the PRISMA flow diagram, the numbers of records identified, included and excluded are displayed (Fig.…”

“…1. When identical cases were used, the paper with the shortest follow-up or earliest publication date was excluded [17,19,[21][22][23]. Studies conducted in the same center but in different time windows with partially overlapping study populations were not considered redundant.…”

“…From 9 articles, a total of patients were included (Table 1). Three articles concerning nonvascularized rectus fascia (NVRF) ATx [3,4,14] and 3 articles about vascularized rectus fascia (VRF) ATx [5,15,24] overlapped with previous reports which were therefore not included [17,19,[21][22][23]. In patients NVRF ATx and in 11 patients VRF ATx was performed.…”

“…2.4.3.1.1. Donor procurement (2)(3)(4)14,19). Acceptance criteria for donor organs at CUB were donor BMI ≤ 25, donor height < 30 cm and donor weight < 30 kg greater than the recipient.…”

“…If both anterior and posterior rectus sheaths are used, the rectus abdominis muscle with both layers of the rectus sheath is excised laterally following the superoinferior axis up to the pubis. (2)(3)(4)14,19). At FF, MSSM, UM and CU, the graft is preserved in University of Wisconsin (UW) or Histidine-Tryptophan-Ketoglutarate solution [3] at 4 • C or on ice.…”