[Postoperative eventrations. Apropos of 247 surgically treated cases]

The 247 eventrations operated upon concerned 230 patients (60% women and 40% men) mean age 54.5 years. Eventrations were large (collar greater than 10 cm) in 18, 5% and were in the median line in 81%. Serial laparotomies by the same approach had been performed in 21%, the principal causes of eventration being biliary and gynecologic surgery. Parietal sepsis developed in 31,5% of cases after operation for the original affection. Classical favoring factors found included obesity (51%), multiparity (42% of women) and chronic lung disease (14%). Preoperative preparation involved the use of Goni Moreno's progressive pneumoperitoneum in 18,5% of patients. Procedures used were parietal repair by raphe (22%), the same but with the addition of a dacron prosthesis (6%) or the large dacron tulle prosthesis for wide reinforcement of the visceral sac (67% of cases). Early sepsis was a slightly more frequent occurrence after dacron tulle, predisposing factors being the prosthesis itself, a previous history of parietal sepsis, swabs and the number of Redon tubes. After use of dacron tulle complications were mainly also hematoma (3.2%) and skin necrosis (2,6%). Postoperative course in general was uncomplicated in 91% of the 247 operations. Follow up of 67% of operated patients for a mean of 5 1/2 years showed recurrence in 50% of raphe procedures and 18.5% of prosthesis implantations; factors of aseptic recurrence (16,5%) were multiparity and chronic lung disease. Delayed sepsis after dacron tulle use affected 8% of patients and were related to chronicity of early sepsis, nonresorbable sutures and sepsis complicating the primary laparotomy. Doming of the parietal wall was noted in 4% of cases repaired by prosthesis.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)