Literature citation: citation: oommen, cn, nunes, qm, shahzad, k, smart, n, tandon, a (2016).Parietex¿ composite mesh versus dynamesh®-ipom for laparoscopic incisional and ventral hernia repair: a retrospective cohort study.Royal college of surgeons, 6, 568-573.Doi: 10.1308/rcsann.2016.0292 a total of 88 patients underwent laparacopic incisional and ventral hernia repair (livhr) between january 2008 and december 2010.Of these, 82 patients underwent laparoscopic incisional hernia repair, 5 patients had a laparoscopy-assisted procedure and 1 had conversion to open procedure; 39 patients were male and 49 were female.Median follow-up was 53.6 months (range, 40-61 months).Seventy-five patients (85.2%) presented with a primary incisional hernia, ten (11.4%) presented with a first recurrence and three (3.4%) presented with a second recurrence from their previous hernia repairs.Sixty-six patients (75%) had single defect either smaller than 4cm or between 4cm and 10cm; twenty-two patients (25%) had multiple defects.Twenty-six patients underwent livhr with a dynamesh-ipom mesh, and parietex composite mesh was used in 62 patients.The male: female ratio was 1:1.89 in the dynamesh-ipom mesh group and 1:1.07 in the parietex composite mesh group.Bmi was high in 12 patients (46%) in the dynamesh-ipom mesh group and in 35 (56.45%) in the parietex composite mesh group.In 45 patients, only protack was used to fix the mesh, whereas in 43 patients both protack and transfascial suturing were used.Incidence of conversion to open operation was 1.1%.There was no mortality in the study.Overall morbidity was 20.5%.Eight patients (12.9%) in the parietex composite mesh group developed a recurrence and four patients (6.4%) in the parietex composite mesh group (p=0.185) developed a seroma and/or haematoma.Of these, two patients developed a haematoma (this ftr is for haematoma patient #2) in the early postoperative period, which was assessed clinically and with ultrasound, and two patients were diagnosed with a seroma on ultrasound scan 6 weeks postoperatively, which settled spontaneously in follow-up and required no further intervention.
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