TY - JOUR AU - Ali Shah, Syed Kashif AU - Memon, Gulshan Ali AU - Jamali, Khawar Saeed AU - Sahito, Rafiq Ahmed AU - Rehman, Habib ur AU - Leghari, Shahnawaz AU - Baloch, Shahida PY - 2017/06/09 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Clinical Outcomes of Open Ventral Hernia Repair in a Public Sector Hospital JF - Annals of King Edward Medical University JA - Annals KEMU VL - 23 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.21649/akemu.v23i2.1571 UR - https://annalskemu.org/journal/index.php/annals/article/view/1571 SP - AB - <p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p><strong>Objective:  </strong>This prospective study was designed to see the outcomes in two different types of surgical repairs (suture or mesh) of primary ventral hernia.</p><p><strong>Methods:  </strong>A total of 70 adult patients under went for elective primary ventral hernia suture or mesh repair at surgical unit-I of Peoples Medical College Hospital Nawabshah and Surgical Unit-I from March-2010 to Feb-2016 were included in this study on the basis of inclusion – exclusion criteria. Patient’s demographic characteristics, operative details, post-operative out-comes (complications and recurrence) were studied.</p><p><strong>Results:</strong><strong>  </strong>A total number of 70 consecutive patients having primary ventral hernia under went for an elective open repair either with suture (32/45.7%) or synthetic mesh (38/54.3%) were evaluated in this study. Among these patients 52 (74.2%) and 18 (25.8%) were female and male respectively, with mean age of 51.5 ± 12. A total of 3(7.89%) patients had recurrence with Mesh Repair and 06(18.75%) with suture repair at 3 years follow-up, p-value = 0.176.</p><p><strong>Conclusion:  </strong>The mesh repair in ventral hernia has low wound complications and less recurrence of the hernia when compared with suture technique.</p> ER -