A new mesh design for plug and patch groin hernia repair: Parietene®PP
Paolo Negro 1, Francesco Gossetti 1, Viviana Vermeil 1, Linda D’Amore 1
Affiliation
Article Info
1 Department of Surgery “Paride Stefanini” - School of Medicine - University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome (Italy)
Abstract
Plug and patch hernioplasty is a technique showing very good results. Actually some criticisms mainly concern the amount of prosthetic material and the shrinkage of the plug resulting in recurrence of hernia, groin pain, and/or migration. The new tridimensional mesh Parietene® PP allows to achieve a plug and patch hernioplasty, without any risk of plug migration. The Parietene® PP hernia repair in simple and easy to learn. Preliminary results are very satisfactory and comparable with the best outcome from mesh plug repair, without any risk of plug migration.
Keywords
- Parietene PP
- Plug and patch repair
- Polypropylene mesh
- Plug migration

