Robotic versus laparoscopic ventral hernia repair: multicenter, blinded randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether robotic ventral hernia repair is associated with fewer days in the hospital 90 days after surgery compared with laparoscopic repair.

Design

Pragmatic, blinded randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Multidisciplinary hernia clinics in Houston, USA.

Participants

124 patients, deemed appropriate candidates for elective minimally invasive ventral hernia repair, consecutively presenting from April 2018 to February 2019.

Interventions

Robotic ventral hernia repair (n=65) versus laparoscopic ventral hernia repair (n=59).

Main outcome measures

The primary outcome was number of days in hospital within 90 days after surgery. Secondary outcomes included emergency department visits, operating room time, wound complications, hernia

SUBMITTER: Olavarria OA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7359869 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature