ArticleBMC surgery2013
Transabdominal pre-peritoneal mesh in inguinal hernia repair in elderly: end point of our experience.
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- The learning curve of laparoscopic holecystectomy in general surgery resident training: old age of the patient may be a risk factor?Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2016Article
- Excellence and safety in surgery require excellent and safe tutoring.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2016Article
- Self-gripping mesh versus fibrin glue fixation in laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair: a randomized prospective clinical trial in young and elderly patients.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2016Article
- Use of a simplified consent form to facilitate patient understanding of informed consent for laparoscopic cholecystectomy.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2016Article
- Is the age of >65 years a risk factor for endoscopic treatment of primary inguinal hernia? Analysis of 24,571 patients from the Herniamed Registry.Surgical endoscopy · 2016Article
- Celiac axis compression syndrome: laparoscopic approach in a strange case of chronic abdominal pain in 71 years old man.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2016Article
- Totally extraperitoneal (TEP) endoscopic hernia repair in elderly patients.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2015Article
- Abnormal right hepatic artery injury resulting in right hepatic atrophy: diagnosed by laparoscopic cholecystectomy.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundAim of this study is to present our standardized laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal hernia repair (TAPP) technique, and to study our experience in the elderly as far as concerns preoperative and postoperative variables.
methodsWe described our standardized TAPP technique according with Stuttgart technique 1, and we evalutated our team's experience in TAPP inguinal hernia repair in elderly (> 65 yrs) and in young patients (< 65 yrs).
resultsWe retrospectively reviewed our Surgery Division's experience about TAPP; we included in our study 185 patients. The sample was subdivided in two groups: TAPP Group (< 65 years patients) and TAPPe Group (> 65 years patients). TAPP Group was composed by 154 patients and TAPPe Group of 31 patients. According with literature, in this subgroup recurrence rate (3,2%), early and delayed complications and mean operative time (86 min). There were no major vascular or intestinal complications. At the moment follow-up is 31 months. There were no incisional hernias on umbilical trocar. Mean satisfaction rate was excellent also in elderly patients.
conclusionsAccording with literature, in our experience TAPP technique is a safe and feasible procedure, even in elderly patients.
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