Threatened Ventricular Assist Devices : Meta-analysis of Negative Pressure Therapy and Flap Reconstruction Outcomes

Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American Society of Plastic Surgeons..

Infected Ventricular Assist Device (VAD)-associated wounds are common and associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The efficacy of hardware salvage utilizing flaps and negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) remains understudied. We hypothesized that patients treated with flaps and/or NPWT would have higher hardware salvage rates compared with other surgical management strategies.

Methods: A meta-analysis study evaluating VAD-associated wounds was performed following PRISMA guidelines. Primary predictor variables were flap-reconstruction (FR), NPWT, no FR, and infection location (mediastinum versus driveline). Primary outcomes were hardware retention (salvage) versus explantation, infection recurrence, or death. Twenty-nine studies were included. Standard statistical methods included logistic regression analysis.

Results: Seventy-four subjects with nonsignificant demographic differences between cohorts were identified. Overall salvage was 59.5% in both driveline and mediastinum cohorts. Overall, NPWT significantly improved salvage compared with no NPWT [77.4% versus 46.5% respectively (P = 0.009)], and FR significantly improved salvage compared with no FR [68.6% versus 39.1% respectively (P = 0.022)]. Logistic regression analysis predicting odds of salvage by FR (area under curve = 0.631) was significantly three times higher (95% CI: 1.2-9.5) and predicting the odds for salvage by NPWT (area under curve = 0.656) was significantly four times higher (95% CI: 1.4-11.1) compared with other treatment.

Conclusions: NPWT or flap reconstruction for treatment of threatened VAD hardware was associated with a significantly improved device salvage compared with other surgical strategies. Further study should focus on subgroup analysis of flaps utilized and synergistic treatment benefits.

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2022

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2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

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Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open - 10(2022), 10 vom: 08. Okt., Seite e4627

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Englisch

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Clark, Robert C [VerfasserIn]
Swanson, Marco A [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Yida [VerfasserIn]
Sarode, Anuja L [VerfasserIn]
Lineberry, Kyle D [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Anand R [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 28.10.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

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10.1097/GOX.0000000000004627

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NLM348142234