ArticleHernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery2025
Long-term patient-reported outcomes after plication of rectus diastasis and simultaneous herniorrhaphy with HELP abdominoplasty.
Article in Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeMidline hernias are common, and when associated with abdominal rectus diastasis, hernia guidelines recommend correction using mesh techniques. We present a retrospective series of patients with primary midline hernias and post-pregnancy moderate or severe abdominal rectus diastasis, who were operated using a comprehensive surgical approach without mesh.
methodsWe previously described the HELP (Hydrodissection-Assisted Extended Lateral Plication) abdominoplasty technique for rectus diastasis repair, with or without a midline hernia. In this study, patient records from 2013 to 2018 were reviewed, and patients with a midline hernia who underwent the HELP abdominoplasty were recruited for a retrospective analysis.
resultsSeventeen patients were successfully contacted. The mean diameter of the umbilical hernia defect was 13.6 mm (5-30 mm), and 7.7mm (5-20 mm) in epigastric hernias. The mean follow-up period was 5.2 years. None of the patients reported a recurrence of diastasis or of hernias. The overall complication rate was 11.8%.
conclusionHELP abdominoplasty appears to be a reliable surgical treatment with a low complication rate for normal-weight women with post-pregnancy moderate to severe rectus diastasis and concomitant small primary hernias. In these cases, the entire damaged fascia should be repaired, and mesh correction is not always necessary.
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.