NCT06409091

Short Term Outcomes of Heavy-weight Versus Medium-weight Synthetic Mesh

Short Term Outcomes of Heavy-weight Versus Medium-weight Synthetic Mesh in a Retrospective Cohort of Clean-Contaminated and Contaminated Retromuscular Ventral Hernia Repairs

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,496 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Cleveland Clinic · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study compares short term outcomes of patients undergoing a hernia repair with heavy weight mesh vs medium weight mesh in clean-contaminated and contaminated cases.

Detailed description

The Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative was queried for patients undergoing open retromuscular hernia repairs with both heavy weight polypropylene (PP) mesh and medium weight PP mesh in cases where there was clean-contaminated and contaminated surgeries. The short term outcomes were then evaluated including wound infections, readmissions, recurrences of the hernia, and quality of life scores.

Conditions

• Hernia, Ventral
• Hernia Incisional

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Medium weight or Heavy weight mesh	Patients received a hernia repair with one of the two groups

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2023-06-30
• Completion: 2023-06-30
• First posted: 2024-05-10
• Last updated: 2024-05-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States