POSTOPERATIVE PAIN AFTER VENTRAL HERNIA REPAIR: A PROSPECTIVE COMPARISON OF OPEN VERSUS LAPAROSCOPIC WITH INTRAPERITONEAL ONLAY MESH (IPOM) TECHNIQUE

  • Edzevit Kadri General Hospital “8 of September”, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
  • Evgenija Lazova General Hospital “8 of September”, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
  • Gjorgji Jota University Clinic for Digestive surgery, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
  • Jasmina Nanceva University Clinic for Traumatology, Orthopaedic Diseases, Anaesthesia, Reanimation, Intensive Care and Emergency Centre in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
  • Katarina Panik General Hospital Kochani, Kochani, Republic of North Macedonia

Abstract

Laparoscopic ventral hernioplasty has many advantages over the open access hernioplasty, but patients suffer severe pain in the first few days.Objectives of this study was comparison of early postoperative pain in Open and Laparascopic approach in IPOM hernioplasty and whether there was statistically significant difference in the intensity of postoperative pain during resting and activity.63 patients who met the inclusion criteria were included in a randomized, prospective, comparative study and were operated with the IPOM technique. They were divided into two groups: open and laparascopic access (32 and 31 patient, consequently). In both groups, postoperative pain was compared at eight time intervals during rest and activity, quantified using VAS. The statistical analysis was done in the statistical programme SPSS version 23.0.Patients undergoing laparoscopic hernioplasty had significantly higher pain intensities on the day of the intervention, the first and second day after the intervention (p<0.0001). On the third and seventh postoperative days, as well as one and six months after the intervention, there was no significant difference in pain intensity between the two methods during rest and activity.Patients after laparoscopic ventral hernioplasty suffer from severe pain in the early postoperative period and it is the biggest challenge and problem after these operations. This originates from transfascial sutures for mesh fixation in both groups and additionally multiple lesions of the parietal peritoneum in the laparoscopic method due to the numerous mesh fixations with tackers.


Keywords: Laparoscopic IPOM, open IPOM, postoperative pain


https://doi.org/10.55302/JMS2141095k


 

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Published
2021-03-19
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KADRI, Edzevit et al. POSTOPERATIVE PAIN AFTER VENTRAL HERNIA REPAIR: A PROSPECTIVE COMPARISON OF OPEN VERSUS LAPAROSCOPIC WITH INTRAPERITONEAL ONLAY MESH (IPOM) TECHNIQUE. Journal of Morphological Sciences, [S.l.], v. 4, n. 1, p. 95-100, mar. 2021. ISSN 2545-4706. Available at: <https://jms.mk/jms/article/view/vol4no1-15>. Date accessed: 29 mar. 2024.
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