Chronic Pain After Inguinal Hernia Repair
CompletedPhase 4NCT00820131
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Chronic pain after inguinal hernia repair has become a major concern. Although tension-free Lichtenstein technique is used and new lightweight meshes have been developed, still up to 40 % of patients complain of some kind of pain even one year after surgery. The necessity of mesh-fixation using sutures, could be causative. However, current data do not provide evidence whether suture fixation in Lichtenstein repair might be the reason for chronic postoperative pain. A newly developed selfgrip-mesh enables sutureless fixation of the mesh in open inguinal hernia repair. Hereby a polypropylene mesh is combined with a resorbable polylactic-acid gripping system. Thereby the rate of chronic postoperative pain could be decreased. Two techniques of inguinal hernia repair will be evaluated: 1. open anterior mesh repair using conventional Lichtenstein technique (sutures for mesh-fixation) 2. open anterior mesh repair using a selfgrip mesh (polylactic-acid gripping system for mesh fixation) Postoperative pain will be evaluated by visual analog scale and Mc Gill pain questionaire at the 10th day, as well as 3 and 15 months postoperatively.
Study details
- Official title
- A Multicenter Prospective Randomized Trial on Chronic Pain After Inguinal Hernia Repair Using a Selfgrip-mesh
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: selfgrip mesh
- Procedure: lightweight mesh with suture fixation
- Sponsor
- Medical University of Vienna
- Start date
- 2008-01
- Primary completion
- 2013-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 85 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Austria
- Total sites listed
- 7
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * primary unilateral inguinal hernia * 18 years and older Exclusion Criteria: * bilateral hernia * recurrent hernia * incarcerated hernia * malignant disease within the last 5 years * not able to understand the questionaire
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00820131