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ReviewHernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery2018

Causes of recurrence in laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair.

Manjunath Siddaiah-Subramanya, Darius Ashrafi, Breda Memon, Muhammed Ashraf Memon

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Review in Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 45 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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45citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
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45 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Manjunath Siddaiah-SubramanyaSir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia.
Darius AshrafiMayne Medical School, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Breda MemonSouth East Queensland Surgery (SEQS) and Sunnybank Obesity Centre, Sunnybank, QLD, Australia.
Muhammed Ashraf MemonMayne Medical School, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. mmemon@yahoo.com.
University of Queensland · AUMayne Pharma (Australia) · AUQueensland Academy of Sport · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeRecurrence after laparoscopic inguinal herniorrhaphy is poorly understood. Reports suggest that up to 13% of all inguinal herniorrhaphies worldwide, irrespective of the approach, are repaired for recurrence. We aim to review the risk factors responsible for these recurrences in laparoscopic mesh techniques.

methodsA search of the Medline, Embase, Science Citation Index, Current Contents and PubMed databases identified English language, peer reviewed articles on the causes of recurrence following laparoscopic mesh inguinal herniorrhaphy published between 1990 and 2018. The search terms included 'Laparoscopic methods', 'Inguinal hernia; Mesh repair', 'Recurrence', 'Causes', 'Humans'.

resultsThe literature revealed several contributing risk factors that were responsible for recurrence following laparoscopic mesh inguinal herniorrhaphy. These included modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors related to patient and surgical techniques.

conclusionsRecurrence can occur at any stage following inguinal hernia surgery. Patients' risk factors such as higher BMI, smoking, diabetes and postoperative surgical site infections increase the risk of recurrence and can be modified. Amongst the surgical factors, surgeon's experience, larger mesh with better tissue overlap and careful surgical techniques to reduce the incidence of seroma or hematoma help reduce the recurrence rate. Other factors including type of mesh and fixation of mesh have not shown any difference in the incidence of recurrence. It is hoped that future randomized controlled trials will address some of these issues and initiate preoperative management strategies to modify some of these risk factors to lower the risk of recurrence following laparoscopic inguinal herniorrhaphy.

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LaparoscopyRecurrenceHernia, InguinalHumansRisk FactorsSurgical MeshCausesHumansInguinal herniaLaparoscopic methodsMesh repairRecurrence

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PMID30145622
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