Trial | NCT01637818  Report issue

Title

Long-term Follow-up of Lichtenstein's Operation Versus Mesh Plug Repair
Long-term Follow-up of a Randomized Clinical Trial of Lichtenstein's Operation Versus Mesh Plug for Inguinal Hernia Repair

  • Phase

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Interventional

  • Status

    Completed No Results Posted

  • Intervention/Treatment

    acetaminophen ...

  • Study Participants

    594
Long-term follow-up of a randomized clinical trial of Lichtenstein's operation versus mesh plug for inguinal hernia repair based on the following published study "Randomized clinical trial of Lichtenstein's operation versus mesh plug for inguinal hernia repair. Br J Surg. 2007 Jan;94(1):36-41."

Primary endpoints is recurrence.
Study Started
Sep 30
1999
Primary Completion
Dec 31
2007
Study Completion
Dec 31
2007
Last Update
Jul 12
2012
Estimate

Procedure Lichtenstein's operation

Procedure Mesh Plug Repair

Drug Opiate

Postoperative pain therapy

Drug Paracetamol

Postoperative pain therapy

Drug non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug

Postoperative pain therapy

Lichtenstein's Operation Other

Mesh Plug Repair Other

Criteria 

Inclusion Criteria:

40 years and older, patients who became 40 in the year of the operation were included (6 patients younger than 40 years were included because of explicit patient's wish).
provision of written informed consent,
symptomatic unilateral or bilateral inguinal hernia.

Exclusion Criteria:

presence of a femoral hernia,
history of hernia repair with mesh,
type I diabetes,
presence of local or diffuse infection (urine, skin, lung, sepsis),
immune deficiency,
severe medical problems contraindicating safe induction of general anaesthesia or elective surgery,
pregnancy,
malignant tumours and
life expectancy of less than 2 years
No Results Posted