1. Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Low Density versus High Density Meshes in Patients with Bilateral Inguinal Hernia
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Carlos Sanchez Cabezudo, Oscar Bonachia Naranjo, Maria Teresa Alonso Garcia, Benito Alcaide Pardo, Beatriz Ramos Lojo, José Luis Porrero Carro, Esther Quiros Herreras, Lucia Latorre, Alberto Marcos Herrero, and Sol Villar Riu
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Groin ,business.industry ,Visual analogue scale ,General Medicine ,030230 surgery ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,law.invention ,03 medical and health sciences ,Inguinal hernia ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Surgical mesh ,Randomized controlled trial ,law ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Medicine ,Hernia ,In patient ,Foreign body ,business - Abstract
We present a randomized clinical trial to compare postoperative pain, complications, feeling of a foreign body, and recurrence between heavyweight and lightweight meshes in patients with bilateral groin hernia. Sixty-seven patients with bilateral hernia were included in our study. In each patient, the side of the lightweight mesh was decided by random numbers table. Pain score was measured by visual analogue scale, on 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th postoperative day, and one year after the surgery. There were no statistically significative differences between both meshes in postoperative complications. About differences of pain average, there were statistically significant differences only on the 1st postoperative day (P
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- 2017
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