NCT00478348

Should Prosthetic Repair of Incisional Abdominal Hernias be Drain or Not?

Adequacy of Drainage During Prosthetic Repair of Incisional Abdominal Hernias: a Randomized Controlled Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Lausanne Hospitals · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether drainage after prosthetic repair of incisional abdominal hernias increases or decreases complications such as infection, seromas and hematomas.

Detailed description

Between 3 to 20% of patients who received a midline laparotomy will develop an incisional hernia. Primary suture of the defect is associated with a recurrence rate between 25 and 50%.Mesh repair is superior with regard to the recurrence (12-20%), but early postoperative complications include infections, hematomas and seromas. Some advocate the use of drains in order to diminish secretions and complications. Other claim that drains increase the complication's rate. In the absence of a randomized controlled trial it's not clear whether drainage could influence positively or negatively the occurence of such complications when performing a prosthetic repair of abdominal incisional hernia. The aim of this study is to answer this question, comparing prospectively two groups of operated patients: the former with drainage and the latter without.

Conditions

• Postoperative Complications
• Hernia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Prosthetic repair of abdominal incisional hernia	Rives-Stoppa repair of incisional hernia

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-05-01
• Primary completion: 2017-10-01
• Completion: 2017-11-10
• First posted: 2007-05-24
• Last updated: 2017-11-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland