Background The medical literature includes two risk scores predicting the occurrence of abdominal wound dehiscence. These risk indices were validated by the authors on the populations studied.

The study included a group of patients that underwent laparotomy procedures complicated by postoperative abdominal wound dehiscence, defined as "separation of the layers of the surgical wound ...

Moreover, the incidences of pulmonary infection, hypoxemia, and sternal dehiscence were decreased in the PUS group. Through follow up, we found that the closure rate of the false cavity, the cardiac ...