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Abstract

In this study, pharmacotherapies of abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) and intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) in animal studies were reviewed from the perspective of ACS/IAH as failed cytoprotection issues, as non-specific injuries, and from the point of view of the cytoprotection concept as resolution. Therefore, this review challenges the unresolved theoretical and practical issues of severe multiorgan failure, acknowledged significance in clinics, and resolving outcomes (i.e., open abdomen). Generally, the reported agents not aligned with cytoprotection align with current pharmacotherapy limitations and have (non-)confirmed effectiveness, mostly in only one organ, mild/moderate IAH, prophylactic application, and provide only a tentative resolution. Contrarily, stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 therapy, as a novel and relevant cytoprotective mediator having pleiotropic beneficial effects, simultaneously resolves many targets, resolving established disturbances, specifically compression/ischemia (grade III and grade IV), and decompression/advanced reperfusion. BPC 157 therapy rapidly activates collateral bypassing pathways, and, in ACS and IAH, and later, in reperfusion, there is a “bypassing key” (i.e., azygos vein direct blood flow delivery). This serves to counteract multiorgan and vessel failure, including lesions and hemorrhages in the brain, heart, lung, liver, kidney and gastrointestinal tract, thrombosis, peripherally and centrally, intracranial (superior sagittal sinus), portal and caval hypertension and aortal hypotension, occlusion/occlusion-like syndrome, advanced Virchow triad circumstances, and free radical formation acting as a membrane stabilizer and free radical scavenger. Likewise, not only in ACS/IAH resolving, but also in other occlusion/occlusion-like syndromes, this “bypassing key” could be an effect of the essential endothelial cytoprotective capacity of BPC 157 and a particular modulatory effect on the NO-system, and a rescuing impact on vasomotor tone.

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Title
Acute Compartment Syndrome and Intra-Abdominal Hypertension, Decompression, Current Pharmacotherapy, and Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 Solution
Author
Sikiric Predrag 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Seiwerth Sven 2 ; Skrtic, Anita 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Staresinic Mario 3 ; Strbe Sanja 1 ; Vuksic Antonia 1 ; Suncana, Sikiric 2 ; Bekic Dinko 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Penovic Toni 1 ; Drazenovic Dominik 1 ; Becejac Tomislav 3 ; Tepes Marijan 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Madzar Zrinko 1 ; Novosel Luka 5 ; Beketic Oreskovic Lidija 1 ; Oreskovic Ivana 1 ; Stupnisek Mirjana 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Alenka, Boban Blagaic 1 ; Dobric Ivan 3 

 Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, [email protected] (A.V.); [email protected] (D.D.); [email protected] (M.S.) 
 Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, [email protected] (A.S.); 
 Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia 
 Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, [email protected] (A.V.); [email protected] (D.D.); [email protected] (M.S.), Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Dental Medicine and Health Osijek, 31000 Osijek, Croatia 
 Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Centre, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia 
First page
866
Publication year
2025
Publication date
2025
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
14248247
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3223930170
Copyright
© 2025 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.