BACKGROUND: Many clinical trials have demonstrated the effectiveness of gabapentin and
pregabalin administration in the perioperative period as an adjunct to reduce acute …

Inguinal hernia repair is one of the most common surgeries performed worldwide. With the
success of modern hernia repair techniques, recurrence rates have significantly declined …

Introduction Worldwide, more than 20 million patients undergo groin hernia repair annually.
The many different approaches, treatment indications and a significant array of techniques …

Abstract The European Hernia Society (EHS) is proud to present the EHS Guidelines for the
Treatment of Inguinal Hernia in Adult Patients. The Guidelines contain recommendations for …

Purpose To provide uniform terminology and definition of post-herniorrhaphy groin chronic
pain. To give guidelines to the scientific community concerning the prevention and the …

Background: Chronic postoperative pain is a major drawback of inguinal hernia repair. This
study compared the frequency of chronic pain after laparoscopic (totally extraperitoneal …

To investigate the role of peripheral neuropathy in the development of neuropathic
postsurgical persistent pain (N-PSPP) after surgery, this French multicentric prospective …

Purpose Tension-free mesh repair of inguinal hernia has led to uniformly low recurrence
rates. Morbidity associated with this operation is mainly related to chronic pain. No …

Object The minimally invasive lateral transpsoas approach has become an increasingly
popular means of fusion. The most frequent complication is related to lumbar plexus nerve …

Background Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a standard treatment option for chronic
neuropathic pain. However, some anatomical pain distributions are known to be difficult to …