Mesh endoprosthesis improves quality of life, reduces complications in patients with ventral hernias
Russia: A new study published in the British Journal of Surgery found a low percentage of wound complications, relapses and significant improvement in the patient's quality of life during the five-year period after anterior separation hernioplasty for ventral hernias.
Ventral hernias, or hernias of the abdominal wall, are a very common type of hernia. Mostly they are formed after surgery. If the postoperative scar healed badly, for example, due to infection, a protrusion of the anterior abdominal wall develops. In the early stages, it is noticeable only when lifting weights and coughing. In the later stages, it is also visible externally; it causes pain, especially with fast walking and sudden movements.
In some cases, a postoperative ventral hernia can reach a huge size. Recently, mesh endoprostheses, or meshes, have been used to treat postoperative ventral hernias. During the operation - hernioplasty - the surgeon sets the abdominal organs in place, and an implant in the form of a mesh is installed in the area of the hernia "gate". Such meshes implant well and do not interfere with the work of organs, which reduces the recovery period. Surgeons of RUDN University, under the guidance of Professor Andrei V. Protasov, MD, head of the Department of Operative surgery and clinical anatomy by I.D. Kirpatovskij followed the recovery of patients after such operations for five years.
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