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. 2014:12 Suppl 2:S4-S7.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2014.08.393. Epub 2014 Aug 24.

Outpatient repair for inguinal hernia in elderly patients: still a challenge?

Piergaspare Palumbo  1 , Chiara Amatucci  2 , Bruno Perotti  3 , Antonio Zullino  4 , Claudia Dezzi  5 , Giulio Illuminati  6 , Francesco Vietri  7
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Outpatient repair for inguinal hernia in elderly patients: still a challenge?

Piergaspare Palumbo et al. Int J Surg. 2014.
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Abstract

Background: Elective inguinal hernia repair as a day case is a safe and suitable procedure, with well-recognized feasibility. The increasing number of elderly patients requiring inguinal hernia repair leads clinicians to admit a growing number of outpatients. The aim of the current study was to analyze the outcomes (feasibility and safety) of day case treatment in elderly patients.

Methods: Eighty patients >80 years of age and 80 patients ≤55 years of age underwent elective inguinal hernia repairs under local anesthesia.

Results: There were no mortalities or major complications in the elderly undergoing inguinal herniorraphies as outpatients, and only one unanticipated admission occurred in the younger age group.

Conclusions: Elective inguinal hernia repair in the elderly has a good outcome, and age alone should not be a drawback to day case treatment.

Keywords: Day surgery; Elderly; Inguinal hernia.

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