Table 3.

Summary of studies about decompressive laparotomy timing in abdominal compartment syndrome

Disease	Author	Year	Number of patients	Study design	Timing	Morbidity	Mortality
Pancreatitis	Mentula [47]	2010	26	Retrospective	DL within 4 days vs. later	nr	18% vs. 100%
	Davis [48]	2013	45	Retrospective	16 pts DL after 3.1 h from ACS diagnosis 3.3 h in BMI > 30 vs. 2.8 h in BMI < 30	43% (ECF or EAF)	Overall 24.1% 10% vs. 33.3%
	De Waele [49]	2016	33 (27 pts with primary ACS)	Retrospective	DL within 3.1 h from ACS diagnosis	24%	At 28 days: 36% At 1 year: 55%
Burn	Ramirez [50]	2018	46 (27 pts with ACS during initial resuscitation)	Retrospective	DL within 13 h from ACS diagnosis vs. later (analysis of the 27 pts with ACS during initial resuscitation)	nr	30% vs. 67% (p = 0.03)

DL Decompressive laparotomy, ACS Abdominal compartment syndrome, pts Patients, ECF Entero-cutaneous fistula, EAF Entero-atmospheric fistula, BMI Body mass index, nr Not reported