Early morbidity of open tension free mesh repair of inguinal hernia

ABSTRACT

To determine the early morbidity of open tension free mesh repair of inguinal hernia. Descriptive case series. Department of Surgery Abbasi Shaheed hospital Karachi, from September 2007 to July 2009. Patients with ingiunal hernia were selected for the study. Open tension free repair was done using polypropylene mesh. After surgery, wound infection, seroma, hematoma, testicular atrophy and early recurrence were noted. This study included 180 patients diagnosed with inguinal hernia. All the study subjects were males. Their mean age was 48.38 +/- 15.59 year [range 22 - 76 year]. Superficial wound infection occurred in 6 [3.3%] patients and numbness in 3 [1.7%] patients. The open tension-free repair of inguinal hernias using propylene mesh was a safe approach with overall early morbidity of only 5%