ArticleUlusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi = Turkish journal of trauma & emergency surgery : TJTES2023
Investigation of the clinical efficacy of thiol-disulfide homeostasis, delta neutrophil index, and ischemia-modified albumin in cases of incarcerated and strangulated hernia.
Article in Ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi = Turkish journal of trauma & emergency surgery : TJTES, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Prediction of bowel resection in acute irreducible inguinal hernia: a retrospective analysis of preoperative computed tomography and clinical risk factors.BMC surgery · 2026Observational
- Assessing hemoglobin, albumin, lymphocyte, platelet (HALP) score in predicting strangulation and resection in hernia surgery.European journal of medical research · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe treatment of patients presenting with the diagnosis of incarcerated and/or strangulated inguinal hernia is mostly surgery. If strangulation and necrosis are present, the need for laparotomy arises, which may increase the risk of morbidity. Currently, it is not possible to clearly determine whether there is bowel ischemia and necrosis before surgery. In this study, we aimed to investigate the clinical efficacy of the thiol-disulfide homeostasis, delta neutrophil index (DNI), and ischemia-modified albumin (IMA) parameters in incarcerated and strangulated hernia cases.
methodsPatients that presented to the general surgery outpatient clinic due to inguinal hernia or to the emergency department of the hospital with a preliminary diagnosis of incarcerated and/or strangulated hernia in April 2021-November 2021 were included in the study. The patients were divided into the following four groups: patients that underwent elective repair for inguinal hernia (Group 1), those who were followed up without surgery due to incarcerated hernia (Group 2), those who underwent hernia repair without bowel resection due to incarceration (Group 3), and those who underwent bowel resection due to strangulation (Group 4). Group 1 was defined as the control group, while Groups 2, 3, and Group 4 were evaluated as the incarcerated/strangulated hernia group. The demographic data of the patients, length of hospital stay, body mass index, comorbidities, medical history and physical examina-tion findings, radiological examinations, treatments applied, white blood cell (WBC) count, lactate, and DNI, thiol-disulfide and IMA parameters were evaluated.
resultsThe WBC count, disulfide/native thiol, disulfide/total thiol, and IMA values were significantly higher in the incarcerated/strangulated hernia group than in the control group, while the native thiol and total thiol values were higher in the latter than in the former (P<0.05). There was no statistically significant difference between the groups in terms of lactate (P>0.05), but the mean WBC count was higher in Group 4 compared to Group 1, and the mean DNI was significantly higher among the patients who underwent bowel resection and anastomosis than in those that were followed up and discharged (P<0.05).
conclusionWe consider that the preoperative evaluation of the thiol-disulfide homeostasis, IMA, and DNI parameters in incarcerated/strangulated hernia cases can be an effective and easily applicable method in predicting difficulties that may be encountered intraoperatively and the surgical procedure to be applied to the patient.
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