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Subject Area

Ophthalmology

Article Type

Original Study

Abstract

Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of mesh repair short-term outcome in adult incarcerated inguinal hernia from the point of view of availability, advantages and disadvantages. Background Hernia is the most frequent abdominal surgery. The standard treatment of inguinal hernia is hernioplasty with mesh repair; we aimed to evaluate the short-term complications after mesh repair in incarcerated inguinal hernia in emergency. Patients and methods This study was carried out on 20 consecutive adult men in Menoufia University Faculty of Medicine and Dessouq General Hospital; all of them presented with symptoms of irreducible inguinal hernia from April 2015 to September 2016. This study included 20 patients because of the limited number of patients presented to our hospital in this period of time and those who fulfill the inclusion criteria, to assess postoperative short-term complications. Results A total of 20 cases did mesh repair in incarcerated inguinal hernia in the same admission in hospital, operative time and the difficulty was average; all of them (100%) had no recurrence in the postoperative follow-up. Conclusion Mesh repair in adult incarcerated inguinal hernia is safe and should be done during the same hospital admission to prevent further attacks of recurrence.

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