Negative-pressure wound therapy versus conventional dressings following stoma reversal: a GRADE-based systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials with predefined subgroup analyses by closure technique
Wajahat Mirza, Mehak Ejaz Khan, Hania Iqbal, Alishbah Khan, Hadi Mohammad Khan, Muhammad Bilal Moeen-Ud-Din, Abdalla M Hadhoud · 2026
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Wajahat Mirza and colleagues pooled trials on wound suction after stoma reversal surgery in a 2026 review. A stoma is an opening that lets waste leave the body after bowel surgery. Reversal closes it, but the wound gets infected in a large share of cases. A suction dressing pulls fluid from the closed wound and may cut infection. Seven strict trials with four hundred twenty-nine patients met the review's rules. The team split results by how skin was closed, gathered or straight.
The review rated proof quality with a standard grading tool. It tracked infection in the first weeks, hospital stay, healing time, and blood loss. Two reviewers screened and scored each trial on their own to cut bias. The authors frame the work as a check on whether suction helps in all closure styles or just some. Their design aims to guide surgeons who face this common, costly setback.
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| CREATOR | Wajahat Mirza, Mehak Ejaz Khan, Hania Iqbal, Alishbah Khan, Hadi Mohammad Khan, Muhammad Bilal Moeen-Ud-Din, Abdalla M Hadhoud |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49636 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |