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Federico Coccolini1, Mario Improta2, Massimo Sartelli3, Kemal Rasa4, Robert Sawyer5, Raul Coimbra6, Massimo Chiarugi7, Andrey Litvin8, Timothy Hardcastle9, Francesco Forfori10, Jean-Louis Vincent11, Andreas Hecker12, Richard Ten Broek13, Luigi Bonavina14, Mircea Chirica15, Ugo Boggi16, Emmanuil Pikoulis17, Salomone Di Saverio18, Philippe Montravers19, Goran Augustin20, Dario Tartaglia7, Enrico Cicuttin7, Camilla Cremonini7, Bruno Viaggi21, Belinda De Simone22, Manu Malbrain23, Vishal G Shelat24, Paola Fugazzola25, Luca Ansaloni25, Arda Isik26, Ines Rubio27, Itani Kamal28, Francesco Corradi10, Antonio Tarasconi29, Stefano Gitto30, Mauro Podda31, Anastasia Pikoulis32, Ari Leppaniemi33, Marco Ceresoli34, Oreste Romeo35, Ernest E Moore36, Zaza Demetrashvili37, Walter L Biffl38, Imitiaz Wani39, Matti Tolonen33, Therese Duane40, Sameer Dhingra41, Nicola DeAngelis42, Edward Tan43, Fikri Abu-Zidan44, Carlos Ordonez45, Yunfeng Cui46, Francesco Labricciosa47, Gennaro Perrone29, Francesco Di Marzo48, Andrew Peitzman49, Boris Sakakushev50, Michael Sugrue51, Marja Boermeester52, Ramiro Manzano Nunez53, Carlos Augusto Gomes54, Miklosh Bala55, Yoram Kluger56, Fausto Catena29.
Abstract
Immunocompromised patients are a heterogeneous and diffuse category frequently presenting to the emergency department with acute surgical diseases. Diagnosis and treatment in immunocompromised patients are often complex and must be multidisciplinary. Misdiagnosis of an acute surgical disease may be followed by increased morbidity and mortality. Delayed diagnosis and treatment of surgical disease occur; these patients may seek medical assistance late because their symptoms are often ambiguous. Also, they develop unique surgical problems that do not affect the general population. Management of this population must be multidisciplinary.This paper presents the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES), Surgical Infection Society Europe (SIS-E), World Surgical Infection Society (WSIS), American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), and Global Alliance for Infection in Surgery (GAIS) joined guidelines about the management of acute abdomen in immunocompromised patients.Entities:
Keywords: Anesthesia; Appendicitis; Cancer; Cholecystitis; Cytomegalovirus; Diverticulitis; Hematologic; Immunocompetence; Immunocompromise; Immunosuppression; Infections; Intra-abdominal; Leukemia; Lymphoma; Oncologic; Perforation; Perioperative; Peritonitis; Transplanted; Tuberculosis
Year: 2021 PMID: 34372902 DOI: 10.1186/s13017-021-00380-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: World J Emerg Surg ISSN: 1749-7922 Impact factor: 5.469