title: Comparison between polypropylene and polypropylene with poliglecaprone meshes on intraperitoneal adhesion formation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to compare intraperitoneal adhesion formation in rats when using polypropylene and polypropylene with poliglecaprone meshes.
  
  
  METHODS
  we used twenty male, Wistar rats, divided in two groups. In group 1, the rats received the polypropylene mesh on their right side and the polypropylene with poliglecaprone mesh on their left side. In group 2 the position of the meshes was inverted. After 30 days, we analyzed the presence or not of adhesion formation, including only those over the meshes. The findings undergone an analysis through the Mann-Whitney test, at a level of significance of p≤0.05.
  
  
  RESULTS
  all meshes presented adhesions. We verified that, for the polypropylene meshes, the percentage of their surface covered by adhesions varied from 10.5 to 100%, with an average of 34.07±24.21%, while for the polypropylene with poliglecaprone mesh, the percentage covered by adhesions varied between 8.5% and 100%, with an average of 44.7±32.85% (p=0.12).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  both meshes lead to adhesion formation, none being superior to the other.
authors.affiliation: Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria DE Lourdes Pessole
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Biondo-Simões
authors.affiliation: Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
authors.forename: Wagner Augusto
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Schiel
authors.affiliation: Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
authors.forename: Mayara
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arantes
authors.affiliation: Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
authors.forename: Tatiane DA
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Silveira
authors.affiliation: Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rogério Ribeiro
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Robes
authors.affiliation: Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
authors.forename: Flávio Daniel Saavedra
authors.initials: FD
authors.lastname: Tomasich
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D008297:Male; D011126:Polypropylenes; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013526:Surgical Mesh; D000267:Tissue Adhesions
chemical_list: D011126:Polypropylenes