ArticleScientific reports2025
Quality of life after laparoscopic totally extraperitoneal (TEP) inguinal hernia repair with fibrin glue versus tack mesh fixation.
Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
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
Mechanical methods are hypothesized to have postoperative pain and more seroma formation than non-mechanical methods due to tissue trauma. Therefore, the current prospective cohort study aimed to assess postoperative pain and quality-of-life (QoL) after fibrin glue versus tack mesh fixation. From July 2022 to December 2023, 80 patients sought TEP at the Suez Canal University Hospitals outpatient clinic. Participants were divided into two groups based on mesh fixation: the Fibrin glue group (FG) and the Tack group (TG). The purpose of this study was to compare the rate of post-operative complications, post-operative pain, length of hospital stays, and wound complications. In the meantime, the two groups QoL were compared using the SF-36 scoring questionnaire and the Caroline Comfort score (CCS). The patients in TG had higher operative time (84.5 ± 5.5 min) compared to patients in FG (78.3 ± 6.4); without statistical significance (p = 0.21). The FG had a statistically significant shorter length of hospital stay compared to TG (p = 0.02) although the duration till initiation of weight bearing did not have statistical difference between both groups (p = 0.09). With a 30-day postoperative follow-up period, overall, there was no difference between both groups regarding the development of postoperative urine retention, seroma or wound infection (p = 0.09, 0.32, 0.3; respectively). Furthermore, after 6 months, FG had a higher overall QoL score using both CCS and SF-36 questionnaire (P = 0.001 and 0.02; respectively). Glue fixation may have a better quality of life and less postoperative pain; however further clinical trials are still needed.
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.