Role of “reduced-size” liver/bowel grafts in the “abdominal wall transplantation” era

Table 1 Techniques of abdominal wall closure after intestinal and multi-visceral transplantation

Ref.	Children/adults with difficult closure	Techniques used for closure	Post-ITx complications related to closure
Nery et al[5], 1998	N.a./n.a. tot = 11 (+ 5 graft reduction/modification)	4 silastic or PTFE mesh	5 incomplete closure
		2 skin flap
		1 myocutaneous flap
		3 mesh + graft reduction
		1 skin flap + graft reduction
Alexandrides et al[4], 2000	9/6	7 goretex mesh	None
		4 myocutaneous flap
		3 silastic mesh
		1 abdominal expander
Levi et al[25], 2003	2/6	8 full-thickness wall graft	2 wall infarction
Charles et al[21], 2004	0/1	1 fibroblast-derived dermis	None
Drosou et al[18], 2005	0/4	4 bioengineered skin equivalent	None
Asham et al[19], 2006	0/1	1 acellular dermal matrix	None
Carlsen et al[2], 2007	8/6	7 goretex mesh	6 incisional hernia
		4 (+ 2) split-thickness skin graft
		2 (+ 2) skin flap
		1 (+ 1) fascia
Zanfi et al[3], 2008	0/13 (+ 2 graft reduction)	5 skin closure	6 incisional hernia
		1 staged closure	4 mesh infection
		4 prosthetic mesh	2 fistulas
		3 full-thickness wall graft	1 abdominal compartments
Gondolesi et al[22], 2009	10/6	16 non-vascularized rectus fascia	7 wall infections
Grevious et al[16], 2009	5/0	5 staged closure (meshà split-thickness skin graft)	1 fistula
Sheth et al[13], 2012	23/0	23 staged closure	2 abdominal compartment s.
Mangus et al[20], 2012	12/25	30 acellular dermal allograft	1 dehiscence
		7 mesh or donor fascia	5 incisional hernia
			2 fistulas
Vianna et al, 2013 (unpublished results)	0/1	1 full-thickness wall graft	N.a.
Weiner et al[15],2014	1/0	1 bi-planar tissue expander	None
Vaidya et al, 2015 (in Chennai) (unpublished results)	1 n.a.	1 full-thickness wall graft	N.a.
Haveman et al[35], 2016	0/1	1 full-thickness wall graft	None
Giele et al[24], 2016	0/19	17 full-thickness wall graft	3 wound infection
		1 partial-thickness vascularized graft 1 partial-Thickness nonvascularized graft

ITx: Intestinal and multi-visceral transplantation; PTEE: Partial-thickness nonvascularized graft.