Neurectomy Vs Nerve Sparing in Open Inguinal Hernia Repair

Services Hospital, Lahore100 enrolled

Overview

It is a randomized controlled trial in which we are treating inguinal hernia patients with mesh hernioplasty and either neurectomy of iliohypogastric nerve and ilioinguinal neurectomy or preservation comparing post operative acute or chronic pain

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

100

Conditions

Inguinal Hernia

Interventions

Neurectomy in inguinal hernia repairPROCEDURE

Mesh hernioplasty of inguinal hernia with neurectomy of ilioinguinal and iliohypogastric nerve

nerve sparing in inguinal hernia repairPROCEDURE

Mesh hernioplasty of inguinal hernia with sparing of ilioinguinal and iliohypogastric nerve

Eligibility

Sex: MALEMin age: 20 YearsMax age: 70 Years

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Inclusion Criteria: * patients male, and age between 20 to 70 years Reducible inguinal hernia Exclusion Criteria: * Irreducible, obstructed or strangulated hernia uncontrolled diabetes

Locations (1)

Services Hospital Lahore

Lahore, Punjab Province, Pakistan

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

percentage of patients developing chronic inguinodynia

Excruciating Pain measured by visual analog score (with 1 being minimum score and 10 being maximum score) for more than 3 months in inguinal region after open mesh hernioplasty for inguinal hernia

Time frame: 3 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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