International Journal of Biomedicine (Mar 2020)

Conceptual and Methodological Approaches to Choosing a Method for Marking a Surgical Site for Reconstructive Surgery on the Anterior Abdominal Wall

  • Serhiy H. Hryvenko,
  • Yuriy A. Semenov ,
  • Abhijit Mahanta,
  • Fedor N. Ilchenko,
  • Yuriy V. Artemov,
  • Andrej A. Dovgan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21103/Article10(1)_OA5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 41 – 44

Abstract

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This article discusses the effectiveness of the author’s method of marking a surgical site (Ukraine patent UA 99427) for surgical treatment of patients with postoperative ventral hernias (POVH). Based on the study of quality of life (QOL) indicators obtained using the SF-36 questionnaire, it was found that the proposed therapeutic tactics for surgical correction of POVH can increase medical, social and aesthetic efficacy to a statistically significant improvement in QOL.

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