Prosthetics repair of a post-traumatic lumbar hernia in an adult

Abstract

The case report of a 45 years patient who had an industrial accident with a blunt metallic object that caused him bruised trauma in the right lumbosacral region is described. After 30 days of this trauma, he noticed increase of volume in the affected area and went to the hernia surgery service of "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso"UniversityGeneralHospital, where he was clinically diagnosed with a right post-traumatic lumbar hernia. He was operated in an elective way with orotracheal anesthesia. Antimicrobian and antithrombotic prophylaxis was carried out; also, a polypropylene preperitoneal prosthesis was implanted. There were not perioperative complications and the patient had follow up during 3 years, without recurrences.

Keywords

• adulto, hernia lumbar postraumática, reparación protésica, recurrencia, atención secundaria de salud.