What is the hernia rate?
About 10% of the patients developed hernia in our hands. Often these were patients that came with pararectal incisions or with abdominal wall infections leading to necrosis of the fascial edges, were on corticosteroids and immunosuppressive following transplantation or had other abdominal wall problems. We submitted the data to FDA and think that it is an acceptable rate of hernia formation. In all STAR patients I was able to close the abdomen fascia to fascia at the last abdominal entry. I was able to repair all post-STAR hernias within a year without using a mesh when a dehiscence and/or hernia developed.
