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Chronic pain and quality of life after inguinal hernia repair using the COMI-hernia score.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Is it worth to explore the contralateral side in unilateral childhood inguinal hernia?: A PRISMA-compliant meta-analysis.Medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Postoperative inguinal pain and disability after Lichtenstein versus ONSTEP hernia repair: analysis of responses to the inguinal pain questionnaire in Spanish.Surgery today · 2021Trial
- Outcomes of inguinal hernia repair in octogenarians: A propensity score-matched analysis of the Herniamed Registry.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2026Article
- External Validation of the COMI-Hernia Score and Establishing Minimal Important Difference for Assessing Postoperative Quality of Life Following Inguinal Hernia Repair.Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2025Article
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- QUALITY OF LIFE USING EURAHS-QoL SCORES AFTER SURGICAL TREATMENT OF INGUINAL HERNIA: LAPAROSCOPIC TRANSABDOMINAL PREPERITONEAL (TAPP) AND LICHTENSTEIN TECHNIQUES.Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery · 2024Observational
- Outcome of incisional hernia repair in patients 80 years and older: results from the Herniamed-Registry.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2023Article
- Predictors of low quality of life after open inguinal hernia repair using the EuraHS-QoL score: prospective multicentric cohort study across 33 hospitals.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2022Article
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernias: Severe defect grade predicts the need for fundoplication.Medicine · 2020Observational
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Abstract
purposeThe Core Outcome Measure Index (COMI) is a brief and multidimensional, patient-orientated outcome questionnaire that assesses chronic pain and quality of life after groin hernia repair. The primary aim of this study was to prospectively assess the COMI-hernia score, over an extended period of time in a single large cohort of patients.
methodsTwo hundred and twenty-eight male patients with inguinal hernia repair were included in the present study. Patients were recruited prospectively with an average follow-up of 3 years.
resultsCOMI-hernia total and the COMI-hernia pain scores were significantly lower following surgery and remained unchanged over time. Young patients' age (p = 0.043), high preoperative COMI-hernia total score (p = 0.018), and bilateral hernias (p = 0.035) were identified as independent risk factors for adverse outcome after groin hernia repair. Both COMI-hernia total and the COMI-hernia pain scores significantly (p < 2.2*10
conclusionsThe COMI score reflects a reliable tool to assess the outcome following groin hernia repair.
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