DIEP Flap Surgery and Intraabdominal Pressure

Aalborg University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Intraabdominal Hypertension; Breast Neoplasms

Treatments: Procedure: DIEP flap surgery

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05764577

2021-082

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim: The primary aim of this study is to test if closure of the abdominal donor site increases the Intraabdominal Pressure (IAP) in women undergoing secondary Deep Inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap breast reconstruction.

Materials and method: By an Unometer, attached to a standard catheter in the bladder, we measured the intravesical pressure as a surrogate marker for the IAP, at baseline, immediate after- and 24 hours after abdominal skin closure, for 13 patients.

Enrollment: 13 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Females undergoing secondary DIEP flap breast reconstruction.
• Performance status 1-2

Exclusion criteria

• Performance status above 2.
• Untreated hypertension or atrial fibrillation

Performance status evalutated using American Society of Anaesthesiologists' (ASA) classification of Physical Health.

Trial design

13 participants in 1 patient group

Surgical intervention

Description:

Participants who underwent secondary DIEP flap breast reconstruction

Treatment:

Procedure: DIEP flap surgery