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Abdominal Compartment Syndrome

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Multiple Organ Failure

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Intraabdominal pressure (IAP) is one of the physical constants that can be modified with great ease at an early time in the presence of severe cavity alterations. An increase in IAP produces a hypertensive state (intraabdominal hypertension, or IAH) that is both the result and an indicator of underlying pathophysiolofgic alterations. IAH has marked effects, both local and systemic, that are liable to lead to multiorgan dysfunction and the full picture of the abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS).1

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  1. Department of Surgery, St. Louis University Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, 63110, USA

    Arthur E. Baue MD (Professor Emeritus) (Professor Emeritus)

  2. Department of Surgery, Klinikum Grosshadern, University of Munich, Munich, D-81377, Germany

    Eugen Faist MD (Professor) (Professor)

  3. Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131, USA

    Donald E. Fry MD (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

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Bumaschny, E., Rodríguez, A. (2000). Abdominal Compartment Syndrome. In: Baue, A.E., Faist, E., Fry, D.E. (eds) Multiple Organ Failure. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1222-5_30

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