TAWT Clinical Presentations

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  1. Dennis A, Bertelson N, Steinberg J, Bokhari F, Nagy K, Joseph K, Wiley D, Starr F, Robert R, Preserving the Fascial Edge: Wittmann Patch Placed as Underlay with Skin Protecting Bolster PDF formated file, American Hernia Society, Orlando, Florida, 2010
  2. Dennis A, Starr F, Joseph K, Bokhari F, Poulakidas S, Nagy K, Wiley D, Steinberg J, Messer T, Andersson R, Roberts R, Open Abdomen Protocol Utilizing Staged Trans-Abdominal Wall Traction (TAWT) Has Revolutionized the Management of the Traumatic Open Abdomen at the Cook County Trauma Unit PDF formated file, Abdominal Wall Reconstruction (AWR), Washington D.C., 2011
  3. Dennis A, Steinberg J, Andersson R, Bokhari F, Starr F, Poulakidas S, Nagy K, Wiley D, Joseph K, Valentino D, Roberts R, Staged Trans-Abdominal Wall Traction (TAWT) as a Means to Recapture Abdominal Domain while Preventing Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in Both the Acute and the Chronic Giant Ventral Hernia PDF formated file, Fifth World Congress on the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (WCACS), Orlando, FL, 2011
  4. Dennis A, Joseph K, Vizinas T, Bokhari F, Poulakidas S, Starr F, Wiley D, Messer T, Nagy K, Not So Fast to Skin Graft… Trans-Abdominal Wall Traction Closes Most “Domain Loss” Abdomens in the Acute Setting PDF formated file, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), Orlando, FL, 2012
  5. Dennis A, Vizinas T, Joseph K, Kingsley S, Bokhari F, Starr F, Poulakidas S, Wiley D, Messer T, Nagy K, Not so fast to skin graft: Transabdominal wall traction closes most ‘‘domain loss’’ abdomens in the acute setting PDF formated file, J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 2013, 74(6): 1486-1492
  6. Dennis A, Bruns N, Vizinas T, Joseph K, Bokhari F, Poulakidas S, Starr F, Wiley D, Messer T, Nagy K, Trans-Abdominal Wall Traction (TAWT) Proves an Effective Method of Closing Chronic, Giant Ventral Hernias; A Series of Six Patients PDF formated file, Abdominal Wall Reconstruction (AWR) Conference, Washington DC, June 2012
  7. Dennis AJ et al, Trans-Abdominal Wall Traction as a Universal Solution to the Management of Giant Ventral Hernias, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2015; 135: 4, 1113–1123