Historical milestones in the study of abdominal compartment syndrome

Intra-abdominal hypertension and the abdominal compartment syndrome developed in its background, described in the medical press in the XIX century, in the XX century, received new impulses for revealing the patterns of organ disturbances from the systematization of knowledge. At present, manifestations of elevated abdominal pressure are registered in a wide range of surgical patients: patients with visceral edema (sepsis, acute pancreatitis, common forms of perito- nitis, closed abdominal injury), pneumoperitoneum (laparoscopy, rupture of hollow organs), an increase in the volume of intraperitoneal fluid (traumatic bleeding, ruptures of aneurysms of the abdominal aorta, acute pancreatitis). Currently, there is a need for further active introduction of advanced technologies, expansion of the arsenal of tools and treatment options to optimize surgical tactics in patients with the development of intra-abdominal hypertension syndrome and the risk of abdominal compartment syndrome.