NCT00572962

Prospective Clinical Observational Cohort Study to Evaluate the Use of a Tissue Separating Mesh (Proceed®) in Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 210 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Ghent · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

1. General: antibiotic prophylaxis: cefazoline (Cefacidal™) 2 gram iv administered 30 minutes before surgery 2. Laparoscopic surgery * at least 5 cm overlap (mesh diameter should exceed hernia size by at least 10 cm) * with or without anchoring transparietal sutures or double crown technique

Conditions

• Ventral Hernia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	use of a tissue separating mesh (Proceed®) in Laparoscopic Ventral hernia repair	use of a tissue separating mesh (Proceed®) in Laparoscopic Ventral hernia repair

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-01-01
• Primary completion: 2014-08-01
• Completion: 2014-08-01
• First posted: 2007-12-13
• Last updated: 2022-12-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium