Research Article
Risk Factors for Recurrent Inguinal Hernia Nuks Inguinal Hernide Risk Faktorleri
Osman Toktas, Remzi Kızıltan, Abbas
Aras, Ozan Okyay, Ozkan Yılmaz and
Oztekin Cıkman
Correspondence Address :
Osman TOKTAS
Yuzuncu
Yıl University
Medical Faculty
Department of
Surgery
Van, Turkey,
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Received on: December 10, 2018, Accepted on: January 03, 2019, Published on: January 10, 2019
Citation: Osman Toktas, Remzi Kızıltan, Abbas Aras, Ozan Okyay, Ozkan Yılmaz and Oztekin Cıkman, (2019). Risk Factors for Recurrent Inguinal Hernia Nuks Inguinal Hernide Risk Faktorleri
Copyright: 2019 Osman Toktas et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Aim: Recurrences in inguinal hernia is not so rare. Therefor identifying factors that have possible role in recurrences of inguinal hernia is very important. In this study, we report the cases operated due to recurrent inguinal hernia in our clinic and aimed to explore patientrelated risk factors for recurrent inguinal hernia.
Methods: Between July 2013 and July 2015, medical files of a total of 60 patients who were operated due to recurrent inguinal hernia at a tertiary university hospital were retrospectively reviewed.
Results: All of our patients were males. The mean age was 54.97 (Std d. 17.23) years. The mean time to recurrence was 5.5 (Std d. 3.56) years. While hernia was on left side in 27 cases, it was in right in 31 cases and in 2 cases hernia was bilateral (p=0.679). Hernia type was indirect inguinal hernia in 27 patients, direct inguinal hernia in 32 patients, and femoral hernia in one patient (p=0.603). A surgical mesh was used in previous surgery in 18 patients, while no mesh was used in 42 patients. (p=0.003)
Conclusion: Our study unlike the literature all of our cases were male and results suggest that patient-related factors such as age, and localization and type of the hernia do not affect the recurrence, while using surgical mesh, which is common in hernia repair, can reduce the recurrence rate. However, further large-scale studies are required to confirm these findings.
Keywords: Inguinal hernia, Recurrence, Risk factors, Recurrence inguinal hernia.