Preperitoneal Versus Pre-trasversalis Hernia Repair (PPTHR)

San Bonifacio Hospital

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Direct Inguinal Hernia; Indirect Inguinal Hernia

Treatments: Procedure: anterior hernia repair; Procedure: transinguinal preperitoneal patch repair

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01350830

CHIR-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Chronic pain rate is from 0 to 50% after prosthetic groin hernia repair. We compared two anterior technique positioning the mesh in the pre-trasversalis space vs preperitoneal space to assess any differences in term of chronic pain and early and late complications

Full description

Chronic pain is evaluated in all presenting types (achy, dull, etc.) moreover foreing body sensation, wall stiffness, paresthesia and numbness are controlled in each patients. Limiting of daily, working, sport and sexual activities (disejaculation) are reported as well.

Enrollment: 253 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years older

Exclusion criteria

• recurrent inguinal hernia
• previous low abdominal operation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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253 participants in 2 patient groups

pre-trasversalis mesh repair group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: anterior hernia repair

trans-inguinal preperitoneal patch group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: transinguinal preperitoneal patch repair