Open AccessDifferent materials of cranioplasty for patients undergoing decompressive craniectomy
Author(s) -
Wanchun Yang,
Junhong Li,
Tengfei Li,
Mingrong Zuo,
Yuting Xiang,
Xin Zhou,
Jun Zheng,
Hao Li
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.59
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1536-5964
pISSN - 0025-7974
DOI - 10.1097/md.0000000000027936
Subject(s) - medicine , cranioplasty , cochrane library , randomized controlled trial , protocol (science) , meta analysis , decompressive craniectomy , systematic review , medline , subgroup analysis , psychological intervention , publication bias , surgery , alternative medicine , traumatic brain injury , nursing , skull , pathology , psychiatry , political science , law
Background: Cranioplasty is widely applied on patients who has undergone decompress craniectomy (DC) due to intractable increased intracranial pressure and the cranioplasty materials have been on the bleeding edge of biomolecular and material science. This systematic review and network meta-analysis (NMA) will be conducted to comprehensively evaluate the safety and efficacy of different cranial implants for patients with cranial defects due to various reasons. Methods and analysis: This protocol has been reported following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols. The following electronic databases will be searched from the date of database establishment to September 1, 2020: PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, VIP, and Wanfang. Randomized controlled trials and non-randomized prospective studies focus on cranial implants will be included. Quality assessment will be conducted using Cochrane Collaboration's tool or risk of bias in nonrandomized studies of interventions based on their study designs. The primary outcome will be postoperative early mortality and implant failure while various complications for secondary outcomes. Pairwise and network meta-analysis will be conducted using STATA V.14 (StataCorp, College Station, Texas, USA). Subgroup analyses and sensitivity analyses will be conducted to assess the robustness of the results. Ethics and dissemination: This systematic review does not require an ethics approval or the need to obtain informed consent. The results will be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Protocol registration number: INPLASY 202110001.