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Watchful Waiting Versus Repair of Oligosymptomatic Incisional Hernias — AWARE  

Incisional Hernia Clinical Trial

Official title:
Watchful Waiting vs. Repair of Oligosymptomatic Incisional Hernias

Clinical Trial Summary

Watchful waiting is non-inferior to surgical repair of asymptomatic and oligosymptomatic incisional hernias in terms of pain and discomfort during normal activities.

Clinical Trial Description

Incisional hernias are one of the most frequent complications in abdominal surgery. In Germany, 44.000 incisional hernia repairs per year are performed. Incisional hernia repair is not a low risk operation associated with high recurrence rate and high percentage of postoperative pain. Treatment of incisional hernias represents a significant surgical and socioeconomic problem. Until now, surgical treatment is recommended for patients with incisional hernia independent of symptoms due to the risk of an acute incarceration with serious complications. Studies defining the exact indications for incisional hernia repair and describing the natural course of an incisional hernia including the risk of an acute incarceration are not available to date. Randomized controlled trials having been performed in the past few years show that observation is a reasonable option in mildly symptomatic inguinal hernias. In this study, watchful waiting vs. surgical repair of oligosymptomatic incisional hernias are compared in a prospective-randomized setting for the first time. The primary endpoint is pain during normal activities measured on the Surgical Pain Scales (SPS) after 24 months follow-up. SPS are a numeric analog scale (NAS) from 0 (no pain) to 150 (maximal pain). The primary endpoint will be dichotomized to no/minimal pain (SPS 0-30) and pain interfering with everyday activities (SPS > 30). Watchful waiting is non-inferior to surgical repair in case the upper border of the 95 % confidence interval will not include the value of 2. Secondary outcomes are pain and discomfort during during sports, at rest, patient satisfaction, quality of life, and the frequency of incarceration. The investigators hypothesize that pain intensity during everyday activities is not different in the compared groups and that incarceration frequency is low. If this was the case, a watchful waiting strategy could be applied in oligosymptomatic incisional hernias and risks and costs for surgery could be saved. ;

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Clinical Trial Details
NCT number NCT01349400
Study type Interventional
Source Charite University, Berlin, Germany
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date November 2011
Completion date June 2021
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