SynthesisHernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery2020
Long-term patient-reported outcomes and quality of the evidence in ventral hernia mesh repair: a systematic review.
Synthesis in Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06864377 (Ventral Hernia Improvement of Treatment and Life), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses 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.
Ventral Hernia Improvement of Treatment and Life
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.
- Outcomes after open posterior component separation via transversus abdominis release (TAR) for incisional hernia repair. A systematic review and meta-analysis.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2024Pooled it
- Biologic Mesh in Surgery: A Comprehensive Review and Meta-Analysis of Selected Outcomes in 51 Studies and 6079 Patients.World journal of surgery · 2021Pooled it
- Pain outcomes in emergent versus elective ventral hernia repair: Propensity score matched analysis.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2026Article
- Low long-term decision regret following mesh-based hernia repair: 5-year outcomes in a previously surveyed cohort.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Article
- Incisional hernia and the risk of incident depression: a population-based propensity score-matched cohort study.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2026Article
- Case Report: Interparietal hernia due to posterior rectus sheath dehiscence following a Rives-Stoppa repair for a ventral hernia.Frontiers in surgery · 2026Article
- Nanocomposite Biomaterials for Tissue-Engineered Hernia Repair: A Review of Recent Advances.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- A comparison of patient-reported outcomes in patients undergoing abdominal wall repair with either synthetic or biosynthetic mesh: a pilot study.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2024Article
- "What really matters to the patients?": assessing the impact of wound healing on the quality of life in patients undergoing incisional hernia repair.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2024Article
- ENGINE-An EHS Project for Future Guidelines.Journal of abdominal wall surgery : JAWS · 2024Article
- Mesh overlap for ventral hernia repair in current practice.Surgical endoscopy · 2023Article
- Article
- Assessment of feasibility and safety of cyanoacrylate glue versus absorbable tacks for inguinal hernia mesh fixation. A prospective comparative study.Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2023Article
- Long-term Follow-up of Patients With Hernia Using the Hernia-Specific Quality-of-Life Mobile App: Feasibility Questionnaire Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Multicenter analysis of laparoscopic versus open umbilical hernia repair with mesh: outcomes and quality of life (QoL).Surgical endoscopy · 2022Article
- Mesh fixation to fascia during incisional hernia repair results in increased prevalence of pain at long-term follow up: a multicenter propensity score matched prospective observational study.Surgical endoscopy · 2022Observational
- Analysis of Factors Relevant to Revenue Improvement in Ventral Hernia Repair, Their Influence on Surgical Training, and Development of Predictive Models: An Economic Evaluation.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The transversus abdominis plane block may reduce early postoperative pain after laparoscopic ventral hernia repair a matched pair analysis.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2020Article
- Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and parastomal hernia repair: case report of concurrent operation in comorbid patient.International journal of surgery case reports · 2020Article
- Histopathological features and tissue remodeling in chronic abdominal wall mesh infection - a clinicopathological study.Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologieArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposePatient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have been increasingly accepted to evaluate the quality of surgery. The impact of a hernia on PROMs and the indication for elective ventral hernia mesh repair are poorly researched. The primary objective in this systematic review was to provide evidence for PROM changes at least 3 months after elective ventral hernia mesh repair. Secondarily, a critical appraisal of the study quality was undertaken.
methodsOvid MEDLINE, PubMed, Ovid Embase, and CENTRAL were searched (year 2000-May 12, 2019) for studies reporting any of 21 predefined PROMs pre- and ≥ 3 months postoperatively following adult ventral hernia mesh repair. A pre-study defined analysis method was used to assess pre- vs. postoperative PROM changes. Quality assessment was guided by criteria formulated by the National Institutes of Health.
resultsThe search yielded 11,438 potentially eligible studies of which 24 met the inclusion criteria. Most studies were of poor or moderate quality and one study was of high quality. There was no evidence for a clinically relevant postoperative improvement in any PROM following umbilical hernia repair or medium-sized incisional hernia repair. A clinically relevant postoperative improvement of pain, physical impairment, and social involvement was seen in patients with a large-sized incisional hernia repair and stoma-related complaints in patients with a medium-sized parastomal hernia repair.
conclusionThis analysis suggested that a minor subset of PROMs improved in patients undergoing large-sized incisional and medium-sized parastomal hernia repair. High-quality studies are imperative in this extremely often conducted surgical procedure.
trial registrationThe review was registered at PROSPERO (CRD42018096671, https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.php?RecordID=96671 ).
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.