Long-term outcomes after Lichtenstein repair using titanium-coated mesh: A retrospective cohort study

• DOI: 10.12669/pjms.37.1.2694
• Publication Date: 2020-12-10T08:26:21Z
• Authors: Çağrı Akalın
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Original Article; 3. Good health

Objective: To examine the long-term outcomes such as recurrence, foreign body feeling and chronic pain of titanium-coated mesh (TCM) versus standard polypropylene (PM) after Lichtenstein repair (LR).
 Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, patients who underwent TCM PM in LR were evaluated between May 2014 January 2018 at Ordu University Training Research Hospital Turkey. Primary (age, gender, mass index, smoking habits, comorbid diseases, American Society Anesthesiologists score, hernia type, side hernia, duration presentation operative time) secondary (surgical site occurence, pain) analyzed. Patients divided into two groups according to elected (TCM PM); titanium group (TG) (PG), respectively.
 Results: 221 analyzed; was used 72 (32.6%) 149 (67.4%) patients. No difference found terms primary (p>0.05). analysis outcomes, surgical occurence similar both Recurrence observed 1.39% (n=1) TG 2.01% (n=3) PG. recurrence (p=0.606). Foreign 15.3% (n=11) 27.5% (n=41) Chronic 4.2% 12.8% (n=9) Significant differences (p=0.046 p=0.044, respectively).
 Conclusion: The result study shows that LR, leads less than PM. However, there no these meshes.
 doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.1.2694
 How cite this:Akalin C. Long-term using mesh: A study. Pak J Med Sci. 2021;37(1):81-86. This is an Open Access article distributed under Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction any medium, provided original work properly cited.