Effect of Inguinal Hernia Repair on Uroflowmetric Parameteres

Ankara Training and Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Urinary Retention; Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms; Inguinal Hernia

Treatments: Procedure: Inguinal hernia repair

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03450811

317

Details and patient eligibility

About

Post operative acute urinary retension or voiding dysfunction are complications after inguinal hernia repair and they cause a great deal of discomfort and stress to patients. Furthermore, they can also increase hospital costs by increasing hospital stay, and by growing the need for outpatient appointments after an elective surgical procedure. Some studies recommend prophylactic alpha blockers to minimizing these adverse effects.

Investigators aimed to determine the changes of uroflowmetric values for male patients following elective inguinal hernia repair.

Full description

Inguinal hernia repair is a common procedure performed in general surgery, with an annual rate of 28 per 100,000 of the population in the USA. The incidence of post operative inability voiding in males following open or laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair varies from 3 to 25%. Evaluating risk factors to reduce the occurence of this complications after one of the most commonly performed surgery by general surgeons could help reduce that high rate of that complication. Although some authors recommend prophylactic alpha blockers, there is no consensus on whether these can decrease rate of urinary retention or voiding dysfunction in male patients.

In current study, investigators aimed to determinate the uroflowmetric parametric changes of patients after elective inguinal hernia repair.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 20 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• any type of inguinal hernia

Exclusion criteria

• active urinary tract infection,
• previous BPH, neurological disease or significant systemic disease,
• medications that could interfere voiding function
• history of prostate, bladder or urethral surgery or traumatic urethral catheterisation.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

Study group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The patients underwent elective open or laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair at a general surgery clinic.

Treatment:

Procedure: Inguinal hernia repair

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

patients who were admitted to the outpatient clinics with various diseases or healthy persons