Trial reportHernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery2019
Using quilting sutures in decreasing seroma formation after managing large ventral hernias: a comparative study.
Trial report in Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Association between surgical hernia repair techniques and the incidence of seroma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2022Pooled it
- Beyond acronyms: a domain-based structural analysis of abdominal wall hernia repair techniques in the contemporary literature.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Article
- How Reproducible Are Abdominal Wall Surgical Techniques? A Methodological Assessment of Technical Reporting in the Contemporary Literature.Journal of abdominal wall surgery : JAWS · 2026Article
- Endoscopic-assisted repair of combined ventral hernias and diastasis recti: minimizing seroma incidence by quilting.Surgical endoscopy · 2024Article
- Minimally invasive bilayer suturing technique for the repair of concomitant ventral hernias and diastasis recti.Surgical endoscopy · 2023Article
- The European Hernia Society Prehabilitation Project: A Systematic Review of Intra-Operative Prevention Strategies for Surgical Site Occurrences in Ventral Hernia Surgery.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Review
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Abstract
purposeThe aim of this study was to evaluate using quilting sutures in a prospective randomized controlled manner the decrease in the incidence of seroma formation among patients subjected to ventral hernia repair.
methodsThe study was a prospective randomized controlled study. 370 patients with large ventral hernias were randomly distributed among two groups. Group A (control group) included 180 patients in whom the repair was done without quilting sutures. Group B (quilting group) included 190 patients, all performed with quilting. Method of dissection was unified as far as possible. All cases had an attached closed suction drain that was removed after two successive days of output ≤ 50 cc. The output of the suction drain was recorded; accumulation of clinically detected seroma after 1, 2 and 4 weeks of removal of the drain was monitored.
resultsThere was no statistical difference between both groups as regards the demographic data and the hernia characteristics. There was significantly smaller amount of output of the drains in every day of the first five postoperative days as well as the total amount of the output before drain removal in favor of the quilting group. Drains were removed earlier in group B. The incidence of clinically detected seroma was less in group B as well.
conclusionsQuilting sutures is an effective and easy technique to reduce post-ventral hernia seroma accumulation.
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