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ArticleHernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery2015

Neonatal laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair: a 3-year experience.

V Pastore, F Bartoli

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Article in Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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V PastorePediatric Surgery Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, Viale Pinto 1, 71122, Foggia, Italy, valentina.pastore@teletu.it.
F Bartoli
University of Foggia · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo retrospectively analyze the feasibility, safety and complication rate of laparoscopic inguinal herniorraphy in babies weighing 5 kg or less.

methodsThirty infants weighing 5 kg or less underwent laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair during a 3-year period. Twenty-eight infants were born preterm and the mean body weight at surgery was 3,800 kg. Internal inguinal ring was closed with a non-absorbable purse-string suture. Contralateral processus vaginalis was closed if patent. Feeding was started on the same day and the patient discharged the following day. Follow-up consisted of physical examination at 1 week, 6 and 12 months post-operatively.

resultsOf the 30 patients (27 males, 3 females), 11 had bilateral and 19 monolateral hernia (16 right, 3 left). At laparoscopy, 23 infants needed to have bilateral herniorraphies. The mean corrected gestational age at surgery was 49.1 weeks. The mean operative time for repair was 30 min for unilateral and 41 min for bilateral hernia. There were not intra- or post-operative complications as well as conversions or recurrences.

conclusionsLaparoscopic inguinal hernia repair in newborns and in ex-preterm infants is a safe and effective procedure to perform and, perhaps, even less technically demanding than open herniotomy.

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Feasibility StudiesFemaleHernia, InguinalHerniorrhaphyHumansInfant, NewbornLaparoscopyMaleRetrospective StudiesTreatment Outcome

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