Conservative Treatment For Ventral Hernia

Zealand University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Ventral Hernia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02263599

DK_01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to evaluate on which indication patients are offered operative treatment for their ventral hernia, and to investigate the natural course of ventral hernia in the population of patients not offered operation.

Enrollment: 2,089 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 120 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

All patients (older than 18 years) referred to the Surgical Department of Køge University Hospital from 2009 - 2014 with the diagnosis ventral hernia

Trial design

2,089 participants in 2 patient groups

Conservatively treated ventral hernias

Surgically treated ventral hernias