Invited Commentary

In this thought-provoking work, Dr Dipp Ramos and colleagues1 use the Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program (VASQIP) database to quantify and identify risk factors for one of the hernia surgeon ’s most feared complications: mesh explantation due to infection. Fortunately, in this population of 103,869 patients who underwent hernia operation, mesh explantation was found to be rare. Only 347 patients underwent subsequent explantation, representing 0.1% of inguinal hernia, 0.6% of umbilical hernia, and 1.5% of ventral hernia repairs.
Source: Journal of the American College of Surgeons - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: New England surgical society article Source Type: research