Blair A Wormer, Ciara R Huntington, Samuel W Ross, Paul D Colavita, Amy E Lincourt, Tanushree Prasad, Ronald F Sing, Stanley B Getz, Igor Belyansky, B Todd Heniford, Vedra A Augenstein
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this prospective, randomized, double-blinded controlled trial was to investigate the utility of indocyanine green fluorescence angiography (ICG-FA) in reducing wound complications in complex abdominal wall reconstruction. MATERIALS AND METHODS: All consented patients underwent ICG-FA with SPY Elite after hernia repair and before flap closure. They were randomized into the control group, in which the surgical team was blinded to ICG-FA images and performed surgery as they normally would, or the experimental group, in which the surgery team viewed the images and could modify tissue flaps according to their findings...
May 15, 2016: Journal of Surgical Research