Background:

the monitoring of the intra-abdominal pressure constitutes an important parameter in the patients submitted to abdominal dermolipectomy.

Objective:

to determine the variations of the intra-abdominal pressure in the patients submitted to dermolipectomy.

Methods:

a descriptive, cross-section study to determine the variations of the intra-abdominal pressure in patients submitted to dermolipectomy was carried out; in the service of Plastic Surgery of the Hospital Universitario Manuel Ascunce Domenech of the city of Camagüey in the period understood since January, 2018 to November, 2019. They studied twenty two patients in those who they evaluated the age, the type of abdominal lipodystrophy, the amounts of PIA, the Body Mass Index, and the quantity of plicate centimeters in the previous abdominal wall.

Results:

the patients understood in the ages between twenty nine to forty eight years were the ones that predominated in this study. The majority had lipodystrophy degree two, 11 patients for a 50 %. The patients with overweight (ten patients) that were the majority in this study, of them six patients registered PIA degree I. The relation between PIA's different levels and the abdominal plication in cm, of the patient fourteen that showed levels of PIA degree I, to eight were reduced between eight ten cm and to four of the patients eleven cm or more.

Conclusions:

most of the operated patients had ages understood between twenty nine to forty eight years. There was a predominance of lipodystrophy degree two in the treated patients. The Body Mass Index and the quantity of plicate centimeters of the abdominal wall have influence right into the increment of the levels of PIA.

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