Table 3.
Outcome of different techniques for open necrosectomy.
| Technique | Patients (n) |
Patients with infected necrosis (%) |
Mortality (%) |
Relaparotomy (n) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open packing | ||||
| Bradley III, 1993 [19] | 71 | 100 | 15 | 1–5/pt. |
| Bosscha et al., 1998 [20] | 28 | 100 | 39 | 17 mean/pt. |
| Nieuwenhuijs et al., 2003 [21] | 38 | — | 47 | — |
| Howard et al., 2007 [22] | 102 | 75 | 12 | — |
| Planned relaparotomies | ||||
| Sarr et al., 1991 [23] | 23 | 75 | 17 | 2–>5/pt. |
| Tsiotos et al., 1998 [24] | 72 | 79 | 25 | 1–7/pt. |
| Closed packing | ||||
| Fernandez-del Castillo et al., 1998 [25] | 64 | 56 | 6 | 11 (17%) |
| Rodriguez et al., 2008 [26] | 167 | 68 | 11 | 14 (11%) |
| Closed continuous lavage | ||||
| Beger et al., 1988 [27] | 95 | 37 | 8 | 26 (27%) |
| Farkas et al., 2006 [28] | 123 | 100 | 7 | — |
| Büchler et al., 2000 [13] | 29 | 27 | 24 | 6 (22%) |
| Nieuwenhuijs et al., 2003 [21] | 21 | — | 33 | — |
| van Santvoort et al., 2010 [29] | 45 | 93 | 16 | 1–7/pt. |