Complications in Inguinal Hernia Surgery

North Karelia Central Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Inguinal Hernia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01760395

NKCH-surg-010

Details and patient eligibility

About

Inguinal hernia repair is the most common procedure in general surgery. Even with acceptable complication rates, thousands of patients worldwide suffer from inguinal hernia surgery complications every year. In Finland, the Finnish Patient Insurance Centre (FPIC) receives reports from surgical complications. In this study, the database of FPIC is used to compare the complication profiles of open and laparoscopic inguinal hernia surgery with mesh.

Enrollment: 335 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 110 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• surgery between 2002 and 2010
• complicated inguinal hernia surgery reported to FPIC

Exclusion criteria

• none