title: Assessment of strangulated content of the spontaneously reduced inguinal hernia via hernia sac laparoscopy: preliminary results of a prospective randomized study.
abstract: This prospective randomized study aimed to evaluate the impact of hernia sac laparoscopy on the morbidity and mortality in cases with a spontaneous reduction of the strangulated hernia content before the assessment of its viability. Ninety-five patients underwent operation owing to incarcerated hernia. Forty-one patients, whose strangulated indirect inguinal hernia spontaneously reduced before the viability of the content was assessed, were included in this study. They were randomly assigned to 2 groups: group A (21 patients managed using hernia sac laparoscopy) and group B (20 patients managed without laparoscopy). The median hospital stay was 28 hours for group A and 34 hours for group B. Four patients of group B had major complications whereas there was none observed in the group A. Two unnecessary laparotomies and 2 deaths occurred in group B. Hernia sac laparoscopy seems to be an accurate and safe method allowing to prevent unnecessary laparotomy and especially in high-risk patients it contributes to decrease major morbidity.
authors.affiliation: Second Surgical Department of Korgialenion, Benakion, Red Cross Hospital, Athens, Greece. ggsgourakis@yahoo.gr
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sgourakis
authors.forename: Arnold
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Radtke
authors.forename: Georgios C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Sotiropoulos
authors.forename: Georgia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dedemadi
authors.forename: Charilaos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Karaliotas
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fouzas
authors.forename: Constantine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Karaliotas
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012307:Risk Factors; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult