Recurrence and Patient Satisfaction After Laparoscopic Hernia Repair With Intraperitoneal Onlay-mesh (IPOM) (SGChirIPOM)

Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Recurrent Ventral Hernia; Ventral Hernia

Treatments: Procedure: hernia gap closure; Procedure: extracorporal suturing of gap

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01839942

SGChirIPOM

Details and patient eligibility

About

For laparoscopic ventral hernia repair, the technique to close the hernia gap is not well established. Mainly three techniques are currently applied:

• no closure at all
• extracorporal suturing of the gap
• intracorporal suturing of the gap

All three techniques have been applied at our hospital. Patients who received laparoscopic hernia repair between 2006 and 2011 will be identified from the patient database and will be contacted by phone to inquire about the outcome and the satisfaction of the surgery.

Enrollment: 348 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• hernia repair between 2006 and 2011
• laparoscopic hernia repair using intraperitoneal onlay-mesh (IPOM)
• patient agrees to be surveyed by phone

Exclusion criteria

• Patient rejects participation in survey
• patient already rejected use of his/her data for research purposes at admittance to surgery

Trial design

348 participants in 3 patient groups

no gap closure

Description:

no hernia gap closure

extracorporal gap closure

Description:

extracorporal hernia gap closure extracorporal suturing of gap

Treatment:

Procedure: hernia gap closure

Procedure: extracorporal suturing of gap

intracorporal gap closure

Description:

intracorporal hernia gap closure

Treatment:

Procedure: hernia gap closure