Abstract

VELEZ-BERNAL, Jorge Luis; MARTINEZ-BUITRAGO, Juan Sebastián; GARCIA-MENDIETA, Leidy Carolina  and  GONZALEZ-DIAZ, Cristina Estefanía. Amyand’s hernia type 2: appendectomy and hernioplasty with low density mesh. rev. colomb. cir. [online]. 2021, vol.36, n.1, pp.150-154.  Epub May 05, 2021. ISSN 2011-7582.  https://doi.org/10.30944/20117582.463.

The incidence of inguinal hernias in Colombia is approximately 15 per 1000 inhabitants, and the risk of presenting an inguinal hernia during life is 27% in men and 3% in women. There are rare presentations such as Amyand’s hernia, which consists of the protrusion of the cecal appendix, inflamed or not, within the content of the hernial sac. At a global level, it has an incidence of 0.13% to 1% and its treatment is based on the Losanoff and Basson classification. However, one of the still existing controversies regarding surgical management is the indication of the use or not of meshes at the time of performing the hernioplasty, and the final result of it, this is the point where the review of our article focuses. We present the case of a 79-year-old patient with a type 2 Amyand hernia who underwent hernioplasty with a low-density absorbable mesh, with adequate postoperative evolution.

Keywords : hernia, inguinal; Amyand´s hernia; appendectomy; herniorrhaphy; prostheses and implants.

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