Study Comparing Tutomesh® Repair to Conventional Surgical Techniques in Potentially Contaminated Hernia Repair and Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

Launched by CENTRE HOSPITALIER RÉGIONAL UNIVERSITAIRE MONTPELLIER · Feb 22, 2010

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• * Patient presenting with an incisional hernia or complicated hernia contraindicating the use of non absorbable mesh:
• • Infected incisional hernia: abdominal wall abscess, chronic fistula
• • Incisional hernia with high septic potential: incisional hernia with strangulation of one or more intestinal loops, repair of incisional hernia during surgery requiring opening of the digestive tube (digestive resection, restoration of digestive continuity, gastro-intestinal perforation, peritonitis from digestive origin)
• • Recurrent incisional hernia with problem of cutaneous healing
• • Incisional hernia requiring important intestinal adhesiolysis
• • Patients signing informed consent form after reading and understanding the information letter _ Patients are more than 18 year old
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Patient with major anesthetic risk (ASA 4)
• • Patient suffering from immunodepression or under immunosuppressor treatment (corticoids...)
• • Patients already enrolled in another study
• • Patient suffering from severe disease not allowing a 1-year follow-up
• • Patient refusing to be enrolled after consulting the information letter
• • Patient presenting with a too large incisional hernia, superior to 140x200 mm
• • Pregnancy