Previous unilateral inguinal hernia repair increase risk of new developed inguinal hernia: a nationwide Longitudinal Cohort Study in Asian male adult patients

• Published in: Surgical endoscopy Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 346 - 351
• Main Authors: Tseng, Shih-I., Li, Ching-Chia, Lee, Hsiang-Ying, Chen, Jian-Han
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.01.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Abdominal Surgery; Adult; Adults; Age; Codes; Cohort analysis; Cohort Studies; Endoscopy; Enrollments; Gastroenterology; Gynecology; Health insurance; Hepatology; Hernia, Inguinal - epidemiology; Hernia, Inguinal - etiology; Hernia, Inguinal - surgery; Hernias; Herniorrhaphy - adverse effects; Hospitals; Humans; Laparoscopy; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Patients; Proctology; Prostate; Retrospective Studies; Surgeons; Surgery; Surgical mesh; Surgical Mesh - adverse effects; Urology; Herniorrhaphy; Contralateral hernia; Inguinal hernia; Asian; National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD); Mesh repair

Introduction Our study aims to identify that patients who received hernia repair previously did have higher risk of occurrence of newly developed inguinal hernia, named as a contralateral inguinal hernia (CIH), than patients who never received inguinal hernia surgery before. Materials and methods We...