A Carrara1, M Catarci2, L Fabris3, M Zuolo3, L Pellecchia4, P Moscatelli4, A Dorna5, M Motter4, R Pertile6, G Tirone4. 1. First General Surgery Unit, Ospedale Santa Chiara, Via Grazioli n.77, 38122, Trento, Italy. alessandro.carrara@apss.tn.it. 2. General Surgery Unit, Ospedale Mazzoni, Ascoli Piceno, Italy. 3. General Surgery Unit, Ospedale Valli del Noce, Cles (Tn), Italy. 4. First General Surgery Unit, Ospedale Santa Chiara, Via Grazioli n.77, 38122, Trento, Italy. 5. General Surgery Unit, Ospedale Di Cavalese, Cavalese (Tn), Italy. 6. Governance Department, Clinical and Evaluative Epidemiology Service, APSS Trento, Italy.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Surgical treatment of diastasis recti is still a matter of debate. Open approaches such as abdominoplasty, which offer the possibility to combine reparation of the diastasis with abdominal cosmetic surgery, are challenged by the emerging less-invasive laparoscopic or robotic techniques that offer shorter recovery for patients. However, evidence in favour of one of the two approaches concerning both short- and long-term complications and functional results is still lacking. In this paper, we analysed clinical and functional results of a new endo-laparoscopic technique for midline reconstruction (THT technique) in patients with primary abdominal wall defects associated with diastasis recti. METHODS: Prospective observational study on 110 consecutive patients was submitted to endo-laparoscopic reconstruction of the abdominal wall with linear staplers. Morbidity and relapse rates with clinical and radiological follow-up were recorded at 1, 6, 12, and 24 months after the operation. Data regarding the impact of surgery on patients' quality of life (EuraHSQol) on chronic low back pain (Oswestry Disability Index, ODI) and urinary stress incontinence (Incontinence Severity Index, ISI) were gathered. RESULTS: After a mean follow-up of 14 months, the morbidity rate was 9.1% and no recurrences were recorded. 6-month follow-up ultrasound showed a rectus muscles mean distance of 6.7 mm; EuraHSQol, ODI, and ISI scores significantly improved in 93%, 77%, and 63% of the cases, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The THT technique proved to be a feasible, safe, and effective alternative for corrective surgery of primary midline hernias associated with diastasis recti. Short- and mid-term results are encouraging but need to be confirmed by further studies with longer follow-up. The achieved midline reconstruction offers a significant improvement of patients' perceived quality of life through reduction of abdominal wall pain, bulging, low back pain, and urinary stress incontinence.
INTRODUCTION: Surgical treatment of diastasis recti is still a matter of debate. Open approaches such as abdominoplasty, which offer the possibility to combine reparation of the diastasis with abdominal cosmetic surgery, are challenged by the emerging less-invasive laparoscopic or robotic techniques that offer shorter recovery for patients. However, evidence in favour of one of the two approaches concerning both short- and long-term complications and functional results is still lacking. In this paper, we analysed clinical and functional results of a new endo-laparoscopic technique for midline reconstruction (THT technique) in patients with primary abdominal wall defects associated with diastasis recti. METHODS: Prospective observational study on 110 consecutive patients was submitted to endo-laparoscopic reconstruction of the abdominal wall with linear staplers. Morbidity and relapse rates with clinical and radiological follow-up were recorded at 1, 6, 12, and 24 months after the operation. Data regarding the impact of surgery on patients' quality of life (EuraHSQol) on chronic low back pain (Oswestry Disability Index, ODI) and urinary stress incontinence (Incontinence Severity Index, ISI) were gathered. RESULTS: After a mean follow-up of 14 months, the morbidity rate was 9.1% and no recurrences were recorded. 6-month follow-up ultrasound showed a rectus muscles mean distance of 6.7 mm; EuraHSQol, ODI, and ISI scores significantly improved in 93%, 77%, and 63% of the cases, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The THT technique proved to be a feasible, safe, and effective alternative for corrective surgery of primary midline hernias associated with diastasis recti. Short- and mid-term results are encouraging but need to be confirmed by further studies with longer follow-up. The achieved midline reconstruction offers a significant improvement of patients' perceived quality of life through reduction of abdominal wall pain, bulging, low back pain, and urinary stress incontinence.
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