Prophylactic three-dimensional funnel mesh for prevention of parastomal hernia: propensity-score-matched cohort study
Jacques-Emmanuel Saadoun, Eleftherios Gialamas, Alexandre Balaphas, Cécile de Chaisemartin, Hélène Meillat, Bernard Lelong, Christian Toso, Emilie Liot, Jérémy Meyer, Guillaume Meurette, Frédéric Ris · 2026
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Description
Hernias beside a permanent bowel stoma strike most patients eventually and are hard to fix once they form, so surgeons tested a preventive funnel-shaped mesh placed at the first operation. Jacques-Emmanuel Saadoun and co-authors report the cohort study in this 2026 paper. The mesh is placed around the stoma as it is created.
Patients who got the preventive mesh were matched with similar patients who did not, balancing age, weight, and other risk traits. Hernia rates and complications were then compared. Prevention is attractive because repair surgery fails often and hernias sap quality of life. A matched cohort cannot match a randomized trial for certainty, but it gives the strongest real-world signal yet for this three-dimensional funnel design.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jacques-Emmanuel Saadoun, Eleftherios Gialamas, Alexandre Balaphas, Cécile de Chaisemartin, Hélène Meillat, Bernard Lelong, Christian Toso, Emilie Liot, Jérémy Meyer, Guillaume Meurette, Frédéric Ris |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 11 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |