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01-12-2018 | Review

Causes of recurrence in laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair

Authors: Manjunath Siddaiah-Subramanya, Darius Ashrafi, Breda Memon, Muhammed Ashraf Memon

Published in: Hernia | Issue 6/2018

Abstract

Purpose

Recurrence after laparoscopic inguinal herniorrhaphy is poorly understood. Reports suggest that up to 13% of all inguinal herniorrhaphies worldwide, irrespective of the approach, are repaired for recurrence. We aim to review the risk factors responsible for these recurrences in laparoscopic mesh techniques.

Methods

A search of the Medline, Embase, Science Citation Index, Current Contents and PubMed databases identified English language, peer reviewed articles on the causes of recurrence following laparoscopic mesh inguinal herniorrhaphy published between 1990 and 2018. The search terms included ‘Laparoscopic methods’, ‘Inguinal hernia; Mesh repair’, ‘Recurrence’, ‘Causes’, ‘Humans’.

Results

The literature revealed several contributing risk factors that were responsible for recurrence following laparoscopic mesh inguinal herniorrhaphy. These included modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors related to patient and surgical techniques.

Conclusions

Recurrence can occur at any stage following inguinal hernia surgery. Patients’ risk factors such as higher BMI, smoking, diabetes and postoperative surgical site infections increase the risk of recurrence and can be modified. Amongst the surgical factors, surgeon’s experience, larger mesh with better tissue overlap and careful surgical techniques to reduce the incidence of seroma or hematoma help reduce the recurrence rate. Other factors including type of mesh and fixation of mesh have not shown any difference in the incidence of recurrence. It is hoped that future randomized controlled trials will address some of these issues and initiate preoperative management strategies to modify some of these risk factors to lower the risk of recurrence following laparoscopic inguinal herniorrhaphy.

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Title: Causes of recurrence in laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair
Authors: Manjunath Siddaiah-Subramanya
Darius Ashrafi
Breda Memon
Muhammed Ashraf Memon
Publication date: 01-12-2018
Publisher: Springer Paris
Published in: Hernia / Issue 6/2018
Print ISSN: 1265-4906
Electronic ISSN: 1248-9204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10029-018-1817-x

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Causes of recurrence in laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair

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