Onlay and Sublay Mesh in Treatment of Ventral Hernia

Al-Azhar University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Ventral Hernia

Treatments: Procedure: Onlay Mesh

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06867029

Mohamed Beloul

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hernia is defined as aprotrusion of viscus or part of viscus usually within a peritonial sac through a defect in the abdominal wall.

Ventral abdomenal hernias include all the hernias occuring through the anterior abdominal wall excluding groin hernias ( incisinal hernia, epigastric hernias, paraumbilical hernias, umbilical and lumbar hernias)

Full description

Ventral hernia can be categorized according to their characteristic into reducible, irreducible or incarcerated , strangulated and recurrant ventral hernia.

The cause of a primary ventral hernia ia s far from completely understood, but it is undoubtedly multifactorial. familial prediposing play a role with increasing evidance of connective tissue disorders, they are considered as a leading cause of abdominal surgery and account for 2-10% of all abdomenal wall hernias .

Clinical data show that 52% of incisional hernias occur within 6 months postoperative as a result of excessive tension and inadeqate healing of aprevious incision.

The history of prothetic repair in abdominal wall hernias began in 1844 within the use of silver wire coils placed in the floor of groin to induce an inflammatory fibrosis . meny prosthetic material have been tried in hernia repair, but the two most common in current use are polypropylene mesh and expanded polytetrafluoroethylene.

The repair of ventral hernia varies from primary closure, primary closure with an onlay mesh reinforcement, sublay mesh placement, and intraperitonial mesh placement. Primary closure techniques are usually performed for smal fascial defects less than 5 cm in the greaters diameter

An onlay , usually of polyproptlene mesh is sutured to the anterior rectus sheeth after the fascial defect has been closed primary, thes type of repair has the potential advantage of keeping the mesh separeted from the abdomenal content by full abdominal muscle fascial wall thikness.

The sublay (retrorectus) placement of mesh, became popular in 1990, the recurence rates with this repair have been stated to be less than 10%.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ventral Hernia patients

Exclusion criteria

• Age below 18 years.
• Complicated hernia.
• Uncompensated heart or lung diseases, haemorrhagic disorders

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Group I

Active Comparator group

Description:

About 15 patients subjected to ventral hernia of onlay mesh procedure (mesh on external oblique muscle)

Treatment:

Procedure: Onlay Mesh

Group II

Active Comparator group

Description:

About 15 patients subjected to ventral hernia of sublay mesh procedure (mesh in the retromuscular space)

Treatment:

Procedure: Onlay Mesh