One year experience of swine dermal non-crosslinked collagen prostheses for abdominal wall repairs in elective and emergency surgery

Table 1 Patients characteristics underwent to abdominal wall repair in elective surgery

Characteristics (N = 9)	Value	N (%)
Gender	Male	5 (55.6)
Gender	Female	4 (44.4)
Age	Mean (SD), yrs	68.3 (±9.3)
Age	Median (range), yrs	68 (53–83)
Surgical indications	Incisional hernia	9 (100)
Comorbidities^a	Immunodepression	4
	Abdominal aortic aneurism	1
	Diabetes	1
	Malignancy	3
	Cardiopathy	2
	BPCO	2
	None	3
Indications for the positioning of the prostheses	Colic anastomosis	6 (66.7)
	Previous prosthetic infection	1 (11.1)
	Intraabdominal infection	2 (22.2)
Prosthetic position	Onlay	0 (0)
	Inlay	0 (0)
	Retromuscolar	6 (66.7)
	Preperitoneal	0 (0)
	Intraperitoneal	3 (33.3)
Hospital stay	Mean (SD), dys	21 (±21)
Hospital stay	Median (range), dys	14 (7–70)
Mortality rates	At 1 month	0
	At 3 months	1 (11.1)
	At 6 months	0
	At 9 months	0

(SD standard deviation; pts patients, yrs years, BPCO bronchopneumopathy chronic obstructive)
^aMore than one patient has more than one comorbidity

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