Department of Surgery, Yokohama Ekisaikai Hospital, Yokohama, Japan.
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.
In Vivo. 2021 Nov-Dec;35(6):3501-3508. doi: 10.21873/invivo.12652.
BACKGROUND/AIM: Currently, there is no classification system specializing in recurrent inguinal hernia (RIH) after open-surgery. For this reason, in this study we proposed one so as to understand the causes of RIH.
Recurrence of IH after suture-repair was classified either as the tissue-loosening (TL) or the tissue-disruption (TD) type. Recurrence after open-mesh-repair was classified according to the locational relation between the hernia-defect and the mesh, as follows: i) mesh-distant (MD), ii) para-mesh (PM), iii) mesh-migration (MM), and iv) unclassifiable (UC). Fifty-two RIHs in 48 patients were classified, using this system, and analyzed.
This system-based classification led to the identification of: i) MM in 11 lesions, ii) PM in 11, iii) MD in 10, iv) TL in 7, v) TD in 5, and vi) UC in 8 lesions. The median time to recurrence (MTR) was significantly shorter in patients who had previously undergone a mesh-repair (n=34) compared to those who had undergone a suture-repair (n=13) [Mesh-repair vs. suture-repair MTR: 1.6 years (0.1-20) vs. 30 years (15-72), p<0.001]. MTR was significantly shorter in the following order: i) MM [0.5(0.1-2.0)]), ii) PM [2.6(0.2-15)]), iii) MD [11(0.5-20)], iv) TD [20(15-30)], and v) TL [40(30-72)] (p<0.001).
This classification system helps understand the causes of RIH, leading to improved outcomes following open-surgery in the future.
背景/目的:目前,尚无专门针对开放式手术后复发性腹股沟疝(RIH)的分类系统。因此,本研究旨在提出一种分类系统,以了解 RIH 的病因。
缝线修复后 IH 的复发分为组织松动(TL)或组织破坏(TD)型。开放式网片修补后复发根据疝缺损与网片的位置关系进行分类,如下:i)网片远侧(MD),ii)网片旁(PM),iii)网片迁移(MM)和 iv)无法分类(UC)。使用该系统对 48 例患者的 52 例 RIH 进行分类并进行分析。
基于该系统的分类确定了:i)11 例 MM,ii)11 例 PM,iii)10 例 MD,iv)7 例 TL,v)5 例 TD 和 vi)8 例 UC。与接受缝线修复的患者相比,先前接受网片修复的患者(n=34)复发时间(MTR)明显缩短[网片修复与缝线修复 MTR:1.6 年(0.1-20)与 30 年(15-72),p<0.001]。MTR 按以下顺序显著缩短:i)MM [0.5(0.1-2.0)),ii)PM [2.6(0.2-15)),iii)MD [11(0.5-20)),iv)TD [20(15-30)),v)TL [40(30-72))(p<0.001)。
该分类系统有助于了解 RIH 的病因,从而改善未来开放式手术后的结果。