Short-term Outcomes for Open and Laparoscopic Midline Incisional Hernia Repair

Abstract

: Postoperative pain or recovery at 3 weeks after repair of midline incisional hernias does not differ between LR and OR, but the LR results in better physical function and less surgical site infections than the OR does. (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00472537).

Comparison of two different concepts of mesh and fixation technique in laparoscopic ventral hernia repair: a randomized controlled trial

“…The laparoscopic approach for incisional and primary ventral hernia has gained popularity because of its low recurrence, short hospital stay and low complication rates compared with the open repair approach [2,4,5,30]. However, it was observed that as many as onefourth of patients have poor outcome following laparoscopic ventral hernia repair [1].…”

“…Many recently published articles consistently report good laparoscopic ventral and incisional hernia repair (LVIHR) outcomes [1][2][3][4]. LVIHR continues to demonstrate low rates of wound complications and short hospital stays [5].…”

Patient Awareness and Symptoms From an Incisional Hernia

“…Another limitation is the lack of a standard quality of life assessment such as SF-36 or Carolinas Comfort Scale (CCS). 14,15 This, however, would only be of value if measured in all patients with or without an incisional hernia. In addition, any comparison between such groups would suffer from other differences that emerge from nonrandomized groups of patients.…”

A systematic methodological review of reported perioperative variables, postoperative outcomes and hernia recurrence from randomised controlled trials of elective ventral hernia repair: clear definitions and standardised datasets are needed

“…Five RCTs were carried out in both the Netherlands [29][30][31][32][33] and Spain [34][35][36][37][38]. [44][45][46] 3 Pakistan [40], [47] Turkey [39], [48] Italy [49,50]Germany [28], [51] 2 Sweden [52] USA [53] Australia (54) Lithuania [55] France [56] Belgium [57] Denmark [58] 1 -Multi vs Single-centre…”

“…Multi centre [28][29][30], [32][33][34], [40], [49], [51][52][53], [57][58] 13 Single centre [31], [35][36][37][38][39], [41][42][43][44][45][46], [48][49][50], [54][55][56] 18 -Year of Publication 1995-2005 [28], [30], [32], [35][36], [39], [46] 7 2006-2016 [29], [31], [33][34], [37][38], [40][41][42][43][44][45], [47]…”