ArticleInternational surgery
Patient awareness and symptoms from an incisional hernia.
Article in International surgery. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02457364 (Prospective Observational Trial of Initial Non-operative Management of Ventral Hernia Repair), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Prospective Observational Trial of Initial Non-operative Management of Ventral Hernia Repair
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Retrorectus mesh reinforcement of ileostomy site fascial closure: stoma closure and reinforcement (SCAR) trial phase I/II results.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2022Trial
- Risk factors of incisional hernia enlargement after colorectal cancer surgery: a retrospective, single-center study.Surgery today · 2026Article
- Composition and influencing factors of hospitalization costs in adult patients undergoing incisional hernia repair surgery.Updates in surgery · 2026Article
- Patient and clinical factors associated with postoperative follow-up duration after ventral hernia repair: a single-center retrospective study.Surgical endoscopy · 2025Article
- "I just can't do that anymore": a qualitative exploration of symptoms and function in patients living with abdominal wall hernia (AWH).Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2025Article
- Patient's Perception of the Role of Gym Activity in Abdominal Wall Herniation in Adults: A Prospective Study.Sports medicine - open · 2024Article
- Assessment of the European Hernia Society Classification of Ventral Hernias and Clinical Outcomes.HCA healthcare journal of medicine · 2024Article
- Article
- Introduction of Small Stitch Small Bite technique: a retrospective long-term follow-up.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2022Article
- Assessment of Quality of Life after Endovascular and Open Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: A Retrospective Single-Center Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Incisional hernia after liver transplantation: mesh-based repair and what else?Surgery today · 2021Article
- Stoma closure and reinforcement (SCAR): A study protocol for a pilot trial.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2020Article
- The PINCH-Phone: a new screenings method for recurrent incisional hernias.Surgical endoscopy · 2019Article
- Incidence of and risk factors for incisional hernia after closure of temporary ileostomy for colorectal malignancy.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2019Article
- The effect of smoking on surgical outcomes in ventral hernia repair: a propensity score matched analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2017Article
- Development and validation of a risk stratification score for ventral incisional hernia after abdominal surgery: hernia expectation rates in intra-abdominal surgery (the HERNIA Project).Journal of the American College of Surgeons · 2015Article
- Incisional Hernia Development: Wound Healing Gone Wrong?Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair SocietyReview
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Incisional hernia is a common postoperative complication following open abdominal surgery with incidence varying between 3% and 20%. Approximately half of all incisional hernias are diagnosed within 1 year following surgery. In the United Kingdom alone, about 10,000 incisional hernia repairs are performed annually. Incisional hernia repairs are generally elective with emergency repair due to incarceration or strangulation constituting about 15% of repairs. Incisional hernia repair is not a low-risk operation and generally has relatively poor results due to chronic postoperative pain and high recurrence rates. Little has been published on patients' awareness of incisional hernia following open abdominal surgery. Moreover, there are very few publications on indications for incisional hernia repair and on the natural course of such hernias. The literature suggests that symptoms and complaints usually presented by patients include pain, discomfort, cosmetic complaints, skin problems, incarceration, strangulation, functional disability, and pulmonary dysfunction. The aim of this study was to investigate whether patients were aware that they had a hernia. In addition, we sought to determine symptoms for those who knew that they had an incisional hernia.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.