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Excess Body Weight and Abdominal Hernia

Visceral Medicine, 2021
Background: Obese patients have an increased incidence of ventral hernias; in over 50% of these cases, patients are symptomatic. At the same time, morbid obesity is a disease of epidemic proportions. The combination of symptomatic hernia and obesity is a
U. Dietz, O. Kudsi, F. Gokcal, N. Bou-Ayash, U. Pfefferkorn, G. Rudofsky, J. Baur, A. Wiegering   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

If laparoscopic technique can be used for treatment of acutely incarcerated/strangulated inguinal hernia?

World Journal of Emergency Surgery, 2021
Purpose Laparoscopic treatment for acutely incarcerated/strangulated inguinal hernias is uncommon and controversial. In the present study, we assessed the safety and feasibility of transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) repair for the treatment of acutely ...
Jing Liu, Yingmo Shen, Yusheng Nie, Xuefei Zhao, Fan Wang, Jie Chen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Laparoscopic fixation of biological mesh at hiatus with glue and suture during hiatal hernia repair

BMC Surgery, 2021
Background Laparoscopic paraesophageal hernia repair is associated with higher recurrence rate. Mesh is used to reduce the recurrence rate. This retrospective study is to review our experience of biological mesh fixed with suture and medical glue in ...
Yusheng Nie, Yao Xiong, Lei Guan, Xin Yuan, Fuqiang Chen, Jie Chen, Huiqi Yang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Strategies involving low-molecular-weight heparin for the treatment and prevention of venous thromboembolism in patients with obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023
IntroductionRecent studies have indicated that the dosage of LMWH in patients with specific weights may be controversial. Therefore, we conducted a meta-analysis to explore an appropriate dosage of LMWH for the prevention and treatment of venous ...
Junjie Liu, Xi Qiao, Mingdong Wu, Haiyang Wang, Hailong Luo, Haolong Zhang, Yikuan Chen, Jianming Sun, Bo Tang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison of open and laparoscopic inguinal-hernia repair in octogenarians

Asian Journal of Surgery, 2023
Summary: Introduction: Although the advantages of laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair in the general population have been reported, its role in octogenarians has yet to be elucidated. This retrospective study was designed to compare the outcomes of open
Xiaoqiang Zhu, Zhengni Liu, Jianfeng Shen, Jiajie Liu, Rui Tang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prioritization criteria of patients on scheduled waiting lists for abdominal wall hernia surgery: a cross-sectional study [PDF]

, 2021
Elective herniorrhaphy; Incisional hernia; Inguinal herniaHerniorrafia electiva; Hernia incisional; Hernia inguinalHerniorràfia electiva; Hèrnia incisional; Hèrnia inguinalPurpose: Long delays in waiting lists have a negative impact on the principles of ...
VERDAGUER TREMOLOSA, MIREIA, Rodrigues Gonçalves, Victor, Rosselló-Jiménez, Daniel, Petrola Chacón, Carlos, Saludes Serra, Judit, LOPEZ-CANO, MANUEL   +5 more
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Clean Cut (adaptive, multimodal surgical infection prevention programme) for low‐resource settings: a prospective quality improvement study

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
Clean Cut is a multimodal, adaptive, checklist‐based infection prevention programme designed to improve compliance with six critical perioperative infection prevention practices. After introducing the programme at five hospitals in Ethiopia, compliance with critical infection prevention standards significantly improved and the relative risk of ...
J. A. Forrester, N. Starr, T. Negussie, D. Schaps, M. Adem, S. Alemu, D. Amenu, N. Gebeyehu, T. Habteyohannes, F. Jiru, A. Tesfaye, E. Wayessa, R. Chen, A. Trickey, S. Bitew, A. Bekele, T. G. Weiser   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

A protocol for developing core outcome sets for laparoscopic hiatal hernia repair

Trials, 2022
Background Hiatal hernias negatively damage patients’ health and life quality. Laparoscopic hiatal hernia repair is currently the gold standard for the treatment of hiatal hernia (LHHR).
Xiaoli Liu, Qiuyue Ma, Jie Chen, Huiqi Yang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of operation procedure and effect for emergency surgery in general hospital during novel coronavirus pneumonia period

BMC Surgery, 2020
Background Novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) outbreak in Wuhan, China in early 2020, resulted in over 80 thousand infections in China. At present, NCP has an explosive growth in the world.
Yuchen Liu, Minggang Wang, Yingmo Shen, Jie Chen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A comparative study of abdominal wall hernia surgery before and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from a 2-year observational period

, 2023
BACKGROUND: Abdominal wall hernia surgery is among the most common procedures in general surgery. It is thought that postponing elective hernia surgeries due to the pandemic will increase emergency presentations of hernias, but different data have been ...
ERGENÇ, MUHAMMER, UPRAK, TEVFİK KIVILCIM   +1 more
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