title: [Postoperative complete abdominal dehiscence: risk factors and clinical correlations].
abstract: The purpose of this study is to review our clinical experience with abdominal wound dehiscence in the Surgical Department of City Hospital Timisoara.
  
  
  METHODS
  19.116 abdominal procedures were performed between January 1992 - March 2009 in our Department and 29 complete dehiscences were identified (0,15%). Significant risk factors in our analysis were intraabdominal infection, wound infection, emergency surgery, malignancies, digestive fistulae, hiperabdominal pressure, sex and age over 65 years. Less significant factors were the abdominal type of incision, the method of wound closure and heart or respiratory diseases.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  postoperative complete dehiscence is a constant presence in a surgical department; despite its low frequency, wound dehiscence is associate with a hight mortality and morbidity rate, and increase the costs and hospitalisation periode. Risk factors evaluation and their associations represente an important role in the therapeutic management of the surgical patient.
authors.affiliation: Clinica de Chirurgie de Urgenţă, Spitalul Clinic Municipal Timişoara. mazilu_o@yahoo.com
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Mazilu
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Grigoraş
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cnejevici
authors.forename: C-tin
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Dabelea
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Prundeanu
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stef
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Istodor
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Timar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004066:Digestive System Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D013505:Digestive System Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007813:Laparotomy / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011184:Postoperative Period; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D013529:Surgical Wound Dehiscence / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014945:Wound Healing