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Emergency Incisional Hernia Repair: A Difficult Problem Waiting For A Solution, Hasnain Zafar, Masooma Zaidi, Irfan Qadir, Ayaz Ahmed Memon
Emergency Incisional Hernia Repair: A Difficult Problem Waiting For A Solution, Hasnain Zafar, Masooma Zaidi, Irfan Qadir, Ayaz Ahmed Memon
Department of Surgery
Background
Emergency repair of incarcerated incisional hernia with associated bowel obstruction in potentially or contaminated field is technically challenging due to edematous, inflamed and friable tissues with occasional need for concurrent bowel resection and carries high rates of post-operative infectious complications. The aim of this study was to retrospectively assess the wound related morbidity of use of permanent prosthetic mesh in emergency repair of incarcerated incisional hernia with associated bowel obstruction. We also describe a new technique of leaving the mesh exposed to heal by secondary intention with granulation tissue.
Methods
Between 2000 and 2010 a total of 60 patients …