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Alain Chichom Mefire, Marc Leroy Guifo. Don’t be scared: insert a mesh!. The Pan African Medical Journal. 2011;10:18 Key words: Mesh, hernia, abdomen, surgery, Cameroon Permanent link: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/10/18/full Received: 19/08/2011 - Accepted: 27/09/2011 - Published: 10/10/2011 © Alain Chichom Mefire et al. The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Don’t be scared: insert a mesh!
Alain Chichom Mefire1,&, Marc Leroy Guifo2
1Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Buea and Regional Hospital Limbe, Limbe, Cameroon, 2Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé 1, Yaoundé, Cameroon
&Corresponding author
Alain Chichom Mefire, General Surgeon, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Buea and Regional Hospital Limbe. P.O. Box 25526, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Mesh repair is now the gold standard technique of repair on incisional hernias. Infection of the mesh is a challenging complication of this type of repair. The risk of mesh infection has been shown to be greater in case of complicated hernia. We present the case of a 64 years old female who presented with an incarcerated incisional hernia with bowel infarction. Treated with a non absorbable mesh repair, she developed mesh infection. The infection was successively treated with simple drainage. This case and review of relevant literature seem to be an indication that mesh repair could still be considered in cases of complicated hernia. Simple drainage usually helps manage the cases of mesh infection.
