title: [Use of nickel-titanium alloys in plasty of the anterior abdominal wall].
abstract: The work presents results of the surgical treatment of postoperative hernias of the abdominal wall using explants of titanium nickelide in 48 patients. Data of biopsy of the anterior abdominal wall muscles in these patients are given. The anatomo-morphological and functional incompetence is shown. A method of preparing the patients with giant hernias to operation with the help of dynamic pneumocompression is described. The indications to using the explants in hernioplasty are determined by the methods of somatometry and intraoperative dynamometry. The data of three methods of combined hernioplasty are presented: with the use of a superelastic network from a nickelide-titanium alloy; explant with tractional properties, effect of the "shape memory"; method of extracorporeal extension of the abdominal wall at the postoperative period. The nearest and long-term results followed-up during 3 years are shown.
authors.forename: G I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Veronskiĭ
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Zotov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000497:Alloys; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006555:Hernia, Ventral / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009532:Nickel; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D012008:Recurrence; D013997:Time Factors; D014025:Titanium
chemical_list: D000497:Alloys; D009532:Nickel; D014025:Titanium