Frecuencia de hernias abdominales y tratamiento quirúrgico en pacientes del Hospital de la III división Tarqui. Cuenca, 1994-2015

Abstract

Background. Abdominal wall hernias are still suffering more frequent in both sexes and his treatment represents the highest percentage of elective surgery. Objective. Determine the frequency of hernias abdominals and surgery treatment in patients attended in the Hospital of the III Division Tarqui of Cuenca, in the period 1994 to 2015. Material and methods. He was a compilation retrospective of 446 clinical histories of patients. Is analyzed the distribution of the herniated abdominal according to: age, sex, State nutritional, type of user, type of hernia and treatment surgical employed. Results. The mean of age was of 38.9 ± 15.3 years. Those men were the 66.8% of the shows. They found overweight in the 17.5% and 2% between obesity types I and II. Those users civilians were the 55.4% and the military the 23.8%. The inguinal hernia (57.2%) was more frequent in the sample. In adults young them hernias umbilical (66.9%) and epigastric (20.3%), were the more frequent; in those adults mature it were: inguinal (52.3%), umbilical (17.1%) e incision (14.1). The militaries the hernias more frequent were inguinals. The herniorrhaphy was treatment in 66.8% of the patients, the hernioplasty in the 30.2% and those procedures laparoscopic is used in the 2.6%. The mesh is used in the 31.5% of patients. Discussion: the results of our series were similar to those reported by the sources consulted