Introduction Worldwide, more than 20 million patients undergo groin hernia repair annually.
The many different approaches, treatment indications and a significant array of techniques …

Mesh infection, although infrequent, is a devastating complication of mesh hernioplasties.
The aim of this study was to systematically review and synthesize the available evidence on …

Background The aim was to determine whether systemic antibiotic prophylaxis prevented
wound infection after repair of abdominal wall hernia with mesh. Methods This was a …

Objective: To determine whether the use of prophylactic antibiotics is effective in the
prevention of postoperative wound infection after Lichtenstein open mesh inguinal hernia …

Background Groin sepsis requiring mesh removal is said to be a rare complication of tension-
free inguinal hernioplasty. Furthermore, late-onset deep-seated prosthetic infection seems to …

Purpose Synthetic non-absorbable meshes are routinely used in hernia surgery for clean
cases but are avoided in the case of clean-contaminated or contaminated hernia or dirty …

Background Inguinal or femoral hernia is a tissue protrusion in the groin region and has a
cumulative incidence of 27% in adult men and of 3% in adult women. As most hernias …

Aim The aim of the study was to evaluate the frequency of superficial and prosthetic mesh
infection following polypropylene mesh repair of different abdominal wall hernia in individual …

The role of prophylactic antibiotics in mesh repair of inguinal hernia is unclear. A Cochrane
meta-analysis in 2005 concluded that “antibiotic prophylaxis for elective inguinal hernia …

The aim of this work was to develop a polypropylene (PP) artificial abdominal wall implant
for the prolonged release of ciprofloxacin (CFX). This sustained release effect was obtained …