COMPLICATIONS AND COMPLAINTS OF INGUINAL HERNIOPLASTY WITH PROLENE™ HERNIA SYSTEM

The purpose of this study was to examine complications and complaints of inguinal hernioplasty with Prolene™ Hernia System. Subjects weer 68 patients (75 cases) who underwent hernioplasty at our department between September 1998 and December 1999. The male-to-female ratio was 47:21, and a mean age was 68.8 years. As for complications, postoperative seromas in 10 cases (14.7%) and hematomas in two cases (2.9%). They were improved with conservative therapy. No infection nor recurrence had noted in our department. A questionnaire survey asking postoperative complaints was conducted, and we recovered 46 replies. It was revealed that postoperative pain vanished in about one week and the patients returned to their former lives in about two weeks. The reply “I have not had a hard time of the postoperative pain” was obtained from 51% of the responders and “I have not felt so bad with the Prolene mesh” from 55.1%. Then, consequently we have arrived at a conclusion that the inguinal hernioplasty with PHS is a good procedure in terms of minimal postoperative complications and complaints.