ArticleHernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery2015
Conservative management of mesh-site infection in hernia repair surgery: a case series.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mesh Infection After Hernia Repair and Negative Pressure Wound Therapy. A Systematic Review.World journal of surgery · 2023Pooled it
- Recurrence of infection and hernia following partial versus complete removal of infected hernia mesh: a systematic review and cohort meta-analysis.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2020Pooled it
- Successful photodynamic therapy for infectious complications of abdominoplasty using mesh implants: a case report.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2025Article
- Synchronous cesarean delivery and revision of infected ventral hernia repair mesh in a complex abdominal wall.Journal of surgical case reports · 2024Article
- Laparoscopic Removal of an Infected Mesh Following TEP Procedure for Femoral Hernia with Omental Patch Closure of a Peritoneal Defect.The American journal of case reports · 2023Article
- Treatment of mesh infection after inguinal hernia repair: 3-year experience with 120 patients.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2023Article
- Microbiology of chronic mesh infection.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2023Review
- [Management of late onset septic complications after IPOM implantation: case series from a hernia center].Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen · 2021Article
- The negative pressure wound therapy may salvage the infected mesh following open incisional hernia repair.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2021Article
- Mesh-preservation approach to treatment of mesh infection after large incisional ventral hernia repair-how I do it.Annals of translational medicine · 2019Article
- Successful salvage of failed post-sarcoma excision reconstruction and exposed alloplastic mesh with an anterolateral thigh flap.Archives of plastic surgery · 2019Article
- Conservative treatment of infected mesh by use of gentamycin impregnated calcium sulphate antibiotic beads: a report of two cases.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2019Article
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- Comparison of complete versus partial mesh removal for the treatment of chronic mesh infection after abdominal wall hernia repair.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2018Article
- A retrospective review and observations over a 16-year clinical experience on the surgical treatment of chronic mesh infection. What about replacing a synthetic mesh on the infected surgical field?Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2015Article
- Evidence for Replacement of an Infected Synthetic by a Biological Mesh in Abdominal Wall Hernia Repair.Frontiers in surgery · 2015Review
- Outcome of patients with chronic mesh infection following abdominal wall hernia repair.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2014Article
- Reconstruction option of abdominal wounds with large tissue defects.BMC surgery · 2014Article
- Conservative management of an infected laparoscopic hernia mesh: A case study.International journal of surgery case reports · 2013Article
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Abstract
purposeThe aim of this study is to assess the outcome of conservative management of infected mesh grafts following abdominal wall hernia repair.
methodsThis study retrospectively examined the charts of patients who developed mesh-site infection following surgery for abdominal hernia repair to determine how effective conservative management in the form of antibiotics and wound management was on the resolution of infection and wound healing.
resultsOver a period of 30 months, 13 patients developed infected mesh grafts post-hernia repair surgery. Twelve patients were successfully treated conservatively with local wound care and antibiotics if clinically indicated. One patient returned to theatre to have the infected mesh removed. Of the patients that healed eleven were treated with negative pressure wound therapy (VAC(®)).
conclusionThis series of case studies indicate that conservative management of abdominal wall-infected hernia mesh cases is likely to be successful.
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