Drainage Versus Sealant in Double Blinded Monocentric Open Incisional Hernia Repair

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-05-24
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Mesh repair for open incisional hernia repair with fibrin sealant or with drainage

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Ghent
• Collaborator: Baxter Healthcare Corporation
• Treatments: Fibrin Tissue Adhesive

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• All patients with a large incisional hernia >5cm diameter that needs elective repair with mesh augmentation

Exclusion Criteria:

• no written informed consent

• 'hostile' abdomen

• emergency surgery (incarcerated hernia)

• parastomal hernia

• incisional hernia outside the midline

• recurrent incisional hernia