Pregnancy Subsequent to Ventral Hernia Repair

Bispebjerg Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hernia, Ventral; Pregnancy

Treatments: Other: No intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02398565

BBH-2015-009

Details and patient eligibility

About

We will examine the outcome of ventral hernia repair with subsequent pregnancy

Enrollment: 7,612 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• History of ventral hernia repair with subsequent pregnancy
• Born between January 1 1955 and January 1 1995

Exclusion criteria

• Registered in the Danish Hernia Database with a non-valid ID-number, i.e. non-Danish resident.

Trial design

7,612 participants in 1 patient group

Cohort

Description:

Patients with a history of ventral hernia repair (umbilical/epigastric and incisional) with subsequent pregnancy Ventral hernia repair - perioperative factors of interest: - mesh vs sutured repair, age, planned vs emergency repair, open vs laparoscopic approach, Pregnancy and delivery - factors of interest: - vaginal vs caesearan section, single vs multiple pregnancy Subgroup of patients with mesh repair: - subanalysis on main attributes Subgroup of patients with sutured repair: - mono- vs multifilament, slowly vs rapidly absorbable

Treatment:

Other: No intervention