Robotic parastomal hernia repair

ABSTRACT

Introduction and Objective:

Annually, more than one hundred thousand new stomas are created in the United States and near 30-50% of those will develop parastomal hernia (¹). Occasionally parastomal hernias may result in life threatening complications such as bowel obstruction or strangulation requiring urgent surgical intervention (²). The minimally invasive surgery for these hernias are preferred, specially when the primary case was either laparoscopic or robot-assisted. Our objective is to demonstrate a step-by-step robotic approach with and without mesh placement and their outcomes in two different scenarios: elective and emergency.

Materials and Methods:

We present two cases, a 56-year-old male with three years prior robot-assisted radical cystectomy with ileal conduit and a 82-year-old male with five year post operation of laparoscopic radical cystectomy with bilateral ureterostomies. Both of them had parastomal hernia, the first case was an urgency due to bowel obstruction while the second case was an elective procedure. Using three portals, we choose the primary repair for the first case and placement of a biological mesh within the keyhole technique (³) for the second one.

Results:

In the first case we had an operative time of 110min, total blood loss of 40cc and for the second case an operative time of 140min with total blood loss of 20cc. Both patients were discharged within 24h and had a follow-up of 2 years with no recurrence.

Conclusions:

The capability for complex sutures and dissection of intracorporeal structures makes the robotic platform a powerful ally (⁴) and we believe in its superiority over conventional laparoscopy. Although further studies are required, our initial series suggests that the robotic parastomal hernia repair is feasible and reproducible, with or without mesh placement and could be demonstrated its use for either elective or emergency situations.

REFERENCES

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  Craft RO, Huguet KL, McLemore EC, Harold KL. Laparoscopic parastomal hernia repair. Hernia. 2008; 12:137-40.
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  Gillern S, Bleier JI. Parastomal hernia repair and reinforcement: the role of biologic and synthetic materials. Clin Colon Rectal Surg. 2014; 27:162-71.
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  Hussein AA, Ahmed YE, May P, Ali T, Ahmad B, Raheem S, et al. Natural History and Predictors of Parastomal Hernia after Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy and Ileal Conduit Urinary Diversion. J Urol. 2018; 199:766-73.
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  Kirkpatrick T, Zimmerman B, LeBlanc K. Initial Experience with Robotic Hernia Repairs: A Review of 150 Cases. Surg Technol Int. 2018; 33:139-47.

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  05 Feb 2021
• Date of issue
  Mar-Apr 2021

History

• Received
  02 June 2020
• Accepted
  10 Oct 2020
• Published
  20 Oct 2020