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A comparative study between ETEP vs. IPOM repair for ventral hernia.

Puthiya Purayil Binthaf¹, Gupta Parag²

¹Department of General Surgery, JLNH&RC, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India. binthaf967@gmail.com.

Hernia : the Journal of Hernias and Abdominal Wall Surgery

|February 7, 2025

Summary

Enhanced View Totally Extraperitoneal (eTEP) repair offers advantages over Intraperitoneal Onlay Mesh (IPOM) for ventral hernias, including less pain and faster recovery. Surgeons should consider expertise when choosing between eTEP and IPOM procedures.

Keywords:

Extra-peritoneal Intraperitoneal mesh Laparoscopy Ventral hernias

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Area of Science:

Minimally Invasive Surgery
Abdominal Wall Reconstruction
Surgical Innovation

Background:

Ventral hernia repair commonly utilizes laparoscopic techniques like Enhanced View Totally Extraperitoneal (eTEP) and Intraperitoneal Onlay Mesh (IPOM).
Comparative clinical outcome data between eTEP and IPOM are essential for surgical decision-making.

Purpose of the Study:

To prospectively compare the clinical outcomes of eTEP versus IPOM for laparoscopic ventral hernia repair.
To evaluate differences in operative time, postoperative pain, recovery, and recurrence rates between the two techniques.

Main Methods:

A randomized prospective study included 60 patients undergoing laparoscopic ventral hernia repair.
Patients were randomized into two groups: 30 for eTEP and 30 for IPOM.
Outcomes assessed included operative time, pain, analgesic use, hospital stay, return to work, quality of life, and recurrence.

Main Results:

eTEP had a longer operative time (211 min) compared to IPOM (177.5 min).
eTEP demonstrated significantly lower postoperative pain, analgesic requirements, and a shorter hospital stay (3.43 days vs. 6.16 days).
Patients in the eTEP group experienced an earlier return to work and improved abdominal wall quality of life, with no recurrences at six months.

Conclusions:

eTEP repair for ventral hernias presents advantages over IPOM, including reduced postoperative pain, shorter hospital stay, and faster recovery.
The selection between eTEP and IPOM should be influenced by surgeon expertise and comfort with each technique.
Both eTEP and IPOM showed no recurrences in the six-month follow-up, indicating high efficacy for both methods.