A Mesh Patch Infection that was applied to Repair Abdominal Incisional Herniation Six Years Ago: Report of a Case

Atsushi Shirahata, Taketo Matsubara, Hisanori Izuno, Mitsuo Saito, Kazuyosi Ishibashi, Gaku Kigawa, Hiroshi Nemoto, Naoyasu Kitamura*, Yutaka Sanada and Kenji Hibi

Department of Surgery, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital
Department of Surgery, Tachibanadai Hospital*

Six years after a 62-year-old man underwent partial intestinal resection for a strangulated small bowel followed three months later by abdominal incisional herniation to which a mesh patch was applied, he was seen elsewhere for high fever and abdominal pain and found in abdominal computed tomography to have a low-density area just below the abdominal wall, indicating infection a mesh patch. After incision abdominal wall and two months drainage of pus failed to end infection, he was referred for further examination and treatment, and we surgically removed the mesh patch and sutured the incisional herniatione. He was discharged on postoperative 8 day.

Key words
incisional herniation, mesh patch

Reprint requests
Atsushi Shirahata Department of Surgery, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital
1-30 Fujigaoka, Aoba-ku, Yokohama, 227-8501 JAPAN

Accepted
September 16, 2009

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