Surgical Technology International

42nd Edition

 

Contains 48 peer-reviewed articles featuring the latest advances in surgical techniques and technologies. 380 Pages.

 

September 2023 - ISSN:1090-3941

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Hernia Repair

A Novel Polypropylene Mesh (T-Line®) for Abdominal Wall Repair: Early Experience at Three Centers in the United States
Diego L Lima, MD, MSc , Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY, USA, Sarah Mohamedaly, MD , Hobart Harris, MD, MPH, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA,  Andrew Hollins, MD, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, Jin Yoo, MD, Assistant Professor, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA ,  Flavio Malcher, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA

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Mesh suture was initially developed and investigated to overcome suture pull-through in hernia repair. It has a large area compared to standard suture which distributes the load in tissue, reducing stress at the suture/tissue interface and preventing suture from cutting through tissue or the mesh. This report describes our early experience using the new T-line® mesh (Deep Blue Medical Advances, Durham, NC, USA) in patients with incisional and primary ventral hernia repairs. This is a descriptive, retrospective study in 18 patients who underwent abdominal wall repair with T-Line® mesh from November 2020 to November 2021 in three academic centers. T-Line® is a novel moderate-weight macroporous, polypropylene mesh with extensions that are 29 times the cross-sectional area of #0 polypropylene suture. They can be sewn into fascia to anchor the mesh with no need for suture tackers or other devices to fixate the mesh. The median age of the patients was 56.5 years (range 25-83) and the median BMI was 31.7 kg/m2 (range 23.6-51). Twelve patients (66.7%) had primary hernias, and 11 (61.1%) had a recurrent hernia. The median defect area was 117.5 cm2 (range 4-390) and the median mesh area was 449.5 cm2 (range 130-600). The mesh position was onlay in 16 cases (88.9%) and sublay in 2 cases (11.1%). The median operative time was 247 minutes (range 104-395). The median length of stay was six days (range 0-21) with no significant in-hospital complications. One patient had a surgical site infection (5.5%) and two patients developed seromas (11.1%). There were no early hernia recurrences with a median follow-up of 28 days (range 8-307). The T-Line® mesh was shown to be safe and effective for patients with ventral hernia in the short term.

 

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Robotic Inguinal Hernia Repair – Update 2022 during the SARS-COVID-19 Pandemic

David S. Edelman, MD, FACS, Doctors Hospital, Baptist Health South Florida, Coral Gables, FL, USA

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Complex Abdominal Wall Reconstruction with Biologic Mesh for Ventral/Umbilical Hernias in Patients with Cirrhosis: Technique and Outcomes
Rifat Latifi, MD, FACS, FICS, FKCS, Adjunct Professor of Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona , David J. Samson, MS, Associate Director, Clinical Research Unit, Kenji Okumura, MD, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA, Abbas Smiley, MD, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Surgery, Gregory R. Veillette, MD, FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery, David C. Wolf, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Seigo Nishida, MD, PhD FACS, Clinical Professor of Surgery, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York

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Introduction: Patients with cirrhosis undergoing non-liver transplant surgery have a higher risk or adverse events than those without cirrhosis. The main objectives of this study were to describe characteristics, outcomes, and outcome predictors of cirrhotic patients undergoing complex abdominal wall reconstruction (CAWR) with biologic mesh.
Materials and Methods: This study had retrospective and prospective components, including all cirrhotic patients at our center with CAWR for ventral/umbilical hernia repair with biologic mesh between December 2016 and November 2021.
Results: We studied 37 patients with cirrhosis. Their mean age was 57.2 years, and 64.9% were male. The median body mass index (BMI) was 28.1kg/m2. Ascites was present in 83.3% of patients. The other most common comorbidities were alcohol abuse (67.6%), hypertension (37.8%), and diabetes (24.3%). All complications in aggregate occurred in 11 patients (29.7%). Six patients (16.2%) underwent reoperation. Surgical site infections (SSIs) occurred in five patients (13.5%). Four deaths occurred within 90 days (11.2% cumulative mortality). By 120 days, there were five deaths (14.2% mortality, but none due to the operation). Seven predictor variables achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) for SSI of 0.963, and two predictors yielded an AUROC of 0.825 for 120-day mortality.
Conclusions: Our results suggest that CAWR for ventral/umbilical hernias among cirrhotic patients is feasible given a dedicated CAWR team in collaboration with transplant surgeons and a transplant hepatologist. The rates of adverse outcomes were low or at the midpoint of the range of the study-specific estimates.

 

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