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repair, because the mesh will be present both pre­peritoneally and between the two aponeuroses laterally. It is, however, no problem at all to do a recurrence repair after a previous ONSTEP. It may preferably be done by two different approaches, one being a simple re-ONSTEP pro­cedure and the other by laparoscopic operation. If doing a re-ONSTEP, then you dissect on top of the previously placed mesh, with dissection between the mesh and the pubic bone making a new space for a new Onex mesh. A mesh is then placed between the old mesh and the pubic bone without removing any part of the old mesh. With a laparoscopic repair, we use the transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) approach; it has been easy to take down the peritoneum from the inside, and then simply put a standard at mesh in the pre­peritoneal space as a standard TAPP procedure.
30.3 Clinical Data
The rst clinical data regarding the ONSTEP technique is a large and impressive series of patients from two centers. The inventors pre­sented 693 patients operated with the technique and followed up for one year [1]. Several ndings from this paper showed a promise of a better open technique. Firstly, the degree of pain was very low, and none of the patients had chronic pain at 1-year follow-up. Secondly, only four recurrences (0.6%) were found with three of them being in women. This has led the inventors to slightly modify the technique for female patients. Thirdly, a very short duration of sur­gery—mean (SD), 17 (6) minutes—was found, which can be cost-saving for a department since it will allow for more patients to be operated in one day. Such a large series with promising results called for further scientic exploration of the technique and also justied the conduction of randomized controlled trials. Surgeons from
other countries in Europe visited the inventors, learned the technique, and started operating at their own centers.
The rst published results from outside Portugal were from Denmark and included 80 patients, with follow-up by standardized ques­tionnaires [9]. Results were good, albeit with the use of questionnaires and not a dichotomous pain registration some patients were found to have pain, but at very low levels. Later, results were presented from a series from Greece [10]. Results were still similar, with low levels of postoperative pain and no patients with chronic pain. A similar report was published from the Czech Republic [11], still with promising results (Table30.1).
The non-controlled series outside the depart­ments of the inventors supported the promising results but are all at risk of bias since no random­ization and/or control group was added to any of the studies. Furthermore, follow-up time and methods were not standardized. Therefore, there was a need for randomized clinical trials. As of December 2015, two prospective trials can be found on the WHO trial search portal [12]. Both studies are from Denmark. One is the ONSTEP versus Lichtenstein (ONLi) study, with 290 included patients and 1-year follow-up [5]. The other, ONSTEP versus Laparoscopy (ONLap), is nished but not published yet [6]. Both studies are being conducted as multicenter studies with general surgical departments, i.e., not specialized hernia centers.
The early results from the ONLi trial demon­strated a safe implementation of the technique, with results similar to the Lichtenstein technique [13]. The only signicant difference found in the early results was the duration of surgery. Patients were followed up with several questionnaires and at 6-month follow-up, a signicant difference was found, favoring the ONSTEP technique in the number of patients experiencing pain during sexual activity [14]. Follow-up for pain at 6 and
Table 30.1 Case series
Country No Study type Persistent pain (%) Recurrence Minutes Portugal [1] 693 Case series 0 4 (0.6) 17 (+6) Denmark [9] 80 Case series 4.5 0 24 (13–53) Greece [10] 33 Case series 0 0 33.28 (+11.69) Czech [11] 72+25 Case series 0 2 18–35
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12 months showed that the number of patients with nonsexual pain and the intensity of pain were similar in the two groups. A noteworthy nding was that two patients in the Lichtenstein group experienced disabling chronic pain after surgery. Both had the mesh surgically removed as well as neurectomy conducted around 6months postoperatively with complete resolving of pain for one patient but persisting pain for the other. No patients in the ONSTEP group experienced these disabling symptoms.
The ONLap study is designed to show non­inferiority between the ONSTEP and the laparo­scopic technique (TAPP), i.e., similar levels of postoperative pain. The rationale is that the ONSTEP technique has some advantages com­pared to laparoscopy, and therefore, if non-inferi­ority can be demonstrated regarding pain, other advantages will justify it as a valid alternative. The advantages are that the ONSTEP technique has a shorter duration of surgery, it does not require the same expensive equipment as laparo­scopic repair, and it is likely to have a much shorter learning curve.
30.4 Learning, Training,
andImplementation
The ONSTEP procedure has a shorter duration of surgery than a standard Lichtenstein or laparo­scopic repair, and surgeons learning the tech­nique nd it easy to learn. To our knowledge, it has primarily been learned by surgeons already familiar with hernia repair, and therefore, experi­ence is lacking as to how well younger surgeons in training can pick up the technique. We believe that it will be easier to learn than the Lichtenstein repair, but solid data are missing to support this. It is very likely easier to learn the ONSTEP tech­nique compared to the laparoscopic techniques (TEP or TAPP), since no endoscopic skills are needed.
Implementation of the ONSTEP technique can be done if surgeons with experience are will­ing to learn the technique. It has been suggested that the optimal way of learning the technique and subsequent implementation is when the
training is done as proctoring [15]. When training surgeons in the ONSTEP technique, some con­cerns and difculties need to be addressed, such as fear of the preperitoneal space [16].
30.5 Health Economics
A formal health economics analysis comparing the ONSTEP method with laparoscopic and Lichtenstein repair has not been conducted yet, but it is planned to use the data from the ONLi and ONLap randomized trials [5, 13] for such an analysis. It is expected that the ONSTEP method will prove to be cost-saving compared to the lap­aroscopic techniques and comparable or maybe even cost-saving compared to the Lichtenstein technique.
Compared to the laparoscopic technique, the Lichtenstein technique has been demonstrated to result in lower costs [17], mainly due to the cost of equipment, sterilization, and time in the operat­ing room. The level of pain, minor complications, and sick leave are expected to be similar between the laparoscopic and the ONSTEP technique, so the cost from sick leave will probably be equal in the two groups. The laparoscopic technique results in a low, albeit increased risk of serious complications that can result in increased costs.
Compared to Lichtenstein, the costs of con­ducting the ONSTEP are more or less compara­ble but with a more expensive mesh. However, the price of the mesh might be justied by the shorter duration of surgery, which in some health­care systems is an important economic factor. However, it is well known that the Lichtenstein technique carries a risk of serious disabling chronic pain that results in a tremendous cost for the society because of resulting unemployment, for the employer because of long sick leave, and for the insurance, be it public or private, because of unemployment benets. The development of disabling chronic pain seems so far to be avoided with the use of the ONSTEP technique.
Furthermore, if the assumptions regarding a shorter learning curve are true, younger surgeons will not need the same amount of supervision, which can free hands in the surgical department
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and thereby be cost-saving, compared to training surgeons for the Lichtenstein or laparoscopic repairs.
Firm conclusions regarding the health eco­nomics aspect of the ONSTEP technique can only be made when results from the ongoing tri­als are combined and analyzed.
30.6 Perspectives
If data with the ONSTEP procedure continue to be robust and shown by different research groups to produce distinctly low levels of severe dis­abling chronic pain and comparable levels of acute pain and recurrences, then there may be a place for the ONSTEP procedure in the routine surgical armamentarium for repair of inguinal hernias. The procedure is fast and easy to learn, as well as advantageous compared with both the Lichtenstein and the laparoscopic procedure. Thus, ONSTEP may be rst choice for primary inguinal hernias in men. In women it may be dif­ferent since the operative procedure is different and technically more difcult than in men.
It could therefore be argued, that the laparo­scopic procedure should still be rst choice for women, as recommended in previous guidelines [18, 19].
If the patient has a recurrent hernia, then an ONSTEP procedure may be used after previous ONSTEP or after previous laparoscopic repair. If the patient has a previous Lichtenstein repair, then a laparoscopic approach will probably be the easi­est technically to perform. The main goal of changing strategy for choice of operation for inguinal hernia repair will be to avoid the Lichtenstein procedure because of the well-known production of severe disabling chronic pain in some patients. A new strategy could therefore be as shown in Table30.2. This, however, has to be supported by trial data from other research groups conrming the current available results, as well as a health economics analysis showing advantages for the ONSTEP procedure compared to the Lichtenstein as well the laparoscopic approach.
Table 30.2 Suggested treatment strategies of inguinal
hernias
Current hernia Male primary
hernia Male, recurrent hernia
Female, primary hernia Female, recurrent hernia Male, special cases (prostate cancer, extensive surgery, etc.)
This could become effective if other research groups can reproduce the ndings, and the health economics analysis supports use of the ONSTEP technique
Conclusion
Previous operation
ONSTEP
Lichtenstein Laparoscopic repair ONSTEP
Laparoscopic repair
Open procedure laparoscopic repair – ONSTEP or
Recommended procedure
Laparoscopic repair ONSTEP
Laparoscopic repair or ONSTEP
Laparoscopic repair Lichtenstein
Lichtenstein
The ONSTEP procedure was introduced by two surgeons from Portugal and has been used in the inventors’ clinics with great suc­cess. It thereafter spread to several European countries by proctoring initially at the clinic in Porto and after that also through local training in other countries. Randomized trials have been performed, and until now they have shown advantages for the ONSTEP proce­dure compared with Lichtenstein regarding sexual dysfunction after operation. Another very interesting feature of the ONSTEP pro­cedure is that until now, after thousands of procedures, not a single patient with severe disabling chronic pain has been produced. This is in contrast to the Lichtenstein proce­dure where it is well-known that some patients will develop severe disabling chronic pain. Overall, the ONSTEP procedure seems to be very promising and will probably nd its place in routine inguinal hernia repair in the near future.
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Transinguinal Preperitoneal (TIPP) Inguinal Hernia Repair Using aTotally Extraperitoneal, Parietalized, Memory-Ring Patch
Jean-FrançoisGillion andEdouardPelissier
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31.1 Introduction
Since introduction of the prosthetic repair of inguinal hernia reduced the recurrence rate to 1–2%, nowadays, chronic pain is the principal concern for hernia surgeons. This complication is indeed very common (10–12%) and can be debili­tating in 0.5–6% of the cases [1]. The principal causes of chronic pain related to the surgical tech­nique are nerve injury, chronic irritation by the brotic reaction induced by the patch, and dam­age to the spermatic cord or testicular vessels.
The Lichtenstein technique is the most com­monly used because it is technically simple and easy to reproduce, but it entails some of the risk factors of chronic pain, namely, (1) extended dis­section of the inguinal canal required to deploy the patch on the inguinal wall; (2) mesh xation to prevent the patch breaking away, by the effect of intra-abdominal pressure; and (3) chronic irri­tation of the nerves by the broplastic reaction induced by the patch.
Most of the technical attempts to minimize these drawbacks failed to solve the problem. Identication of the three nerves is not always pos­sible, and it is not associated with a reduced risk of chronic pain [2], which can even be increased by neurolysis [3]. Nerve resection can contribute to reduce the incidence of chronic pain according to a meta-analysis [4], but it failed to induce signi-
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cant effect according to another one [5], and in both instances it resulted in sensory trouble. Fibrin sealant and synthetic glue were tried to minimize the risk of nerve entrapment by sutures, but on ve meta-analyses, only two showed a reduction of chronic pain [6, 7], though one of them underlined the poor quality of the trials [6] and three con­cluded negatively [810]. Self-adhesive patches did not do better. Indeed, a recent large RCT as well as meta-analyses concluded that the self-grip­ping mesh could reduce early postoperative pain, but not chronic pain [1113].
On the contrary, the preperitoneal patch does not involve these drawbacks: (1) the patch applied to the abdominal wall by intra-abdominal pres­sure requires minimal or no xation at all; (2) the patch does not contact the nerves in the inguinal canal; (3) it is no more in contact with the nerves in the preperitoneal space, since before they reach the inguinal canal, the ilioinguinal and ilio­hypogastric nerves run between the internal oblique and transverse muscles (thus they are separated from the patch by the transverse mus­cle) and the genitofemoral nerve runs on the psoas muscle covered by the fascia iliaca [14].
Meta-analyses have shown that laparoscopic techniques provide less postoperative pain, shorter time to resume activity and work, less numbness, and less chronic pain than open tech­niques [1517]. By contrast, a recent meta-analy­sis by Koning etal. comparing TEP to Lichtenstein concluded that the advantage of TEP is not really established, due to the huge heterogeneity and
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insufcient quality of some RCTs [18]. Nevertheless, three RCTs with low risk of bias [1922] showed that the TEP provided less post­operative pain, earlier return to activity and to work, and less chronic pain than the Lichtenstein. Westin etal. concluded that TEP is the procedure of choice in the surgical treatment of primary inguinal hernias [22], and Langeveld etal. con­cluded that TEP could be recommended as the optimal technique in experienced hands [19]. Reference to the surgeon’s skills is important, because of the limitations and drawbacks of lapa­roscopic techniques. Laparoscopy is indeed more demanding than the Lichtenstein technique, the learning curve is longer [23], and it can result in rare but severe complications [15].
The limits of laparoscopic repair justify the introduction of minimally invasive open tech­niques. The trans-inguinal preperitoneal (TIPP) repair consists of placing the patch in the preperi­toneal space by inguinal approach. It was origi­nally introduced by Rives in France [24] and by Schumpelick in Germany who coined the term TIPP [25]. These techniques were not simple and involved long opening of the transversalis fascia, extended preperitoneal dissection, and transmus­cular sutures to x the patch.
The modern TIPP concept consists of a short inguinal incision; limited dissection; introduction and deployment of the patch through the hernia orice, without any other damage to the abdomi­nal wall; and no xation. This is enabled by the use of the special memory-ring patch Polysoft.
In his initial experience, Pelissier [26] used to split the patch in most cases of indirect hernias, to accommodate the spermatic cord, but he soon switched to parietalizing the cord and not split­ting the patch [27]. We describe the current tech­nique based on cord parietalization, without splitting the patch.
geal mask, completed with a TAP block per­formed under ultrasound control [28]. The complete recovery is very fast allowing a quick return home, which is especially interesting for those patients operated on even late in the after­noon. This way TIPP is perfectly tted with the D case surgery.
31.3 Operative Technique: Lateral Hernia
31.3.1 First Step: Skin Incision
Contrary to some other open preperitoneal repairs, TIPP uses the inguinal route well known by every surgeon. A short skin crease incision (3–5 cm depending on the panniculus adiposus thickness) is carried out at the level of the deep inguinal orice (Fig.31.1).
31.3.2 Second Step: Nerve Preservation
1. Ilioinguinal Nerve.
The external oblique aponeurosis is incised. A careful attempt to identify and pre­serve the ilioinguinal nerve (II), running just behind this aponeurosis, is carried out. It is easier when done at the beginning of the pro­cedure (Fig.31.2).
2. Ilio-hypogastric Nerve.
31.2 Anesthesia
Contrary to TEP, TIPP does not require a deep general anesthesia with myorelaxants. TIPP can be achieved either under local anesthesia [27] or under a “light” general anesthesia with a laryn-
Fig. 31.1 Short inguinal incision (right inguinal hernia)
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vessels (lesser cord) and both the internal spermatic vessel and the vas deferens (proper cord) [29].
4. Femoral Branch of the Genitofemoral Nerve. As we will see further, the preperitoneal dissec-
tion is done in the visceral compartment close to the peritoneum and not in the lateral com­partment where runs the genitofemoral nerve (GF) and caudally its femoral branch (FBGF).
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Fig. 31.2 Identication and preservation of the ilioingui-
nal nerve
Fig. 31.3 Dissection between the proper cord and the
lesser cord avoid any further traction on the genital branch of the genitofemoral nerve
Contrary to what is required in the Lichtenstein repair, no extensive dissection between the external oblique aponeurosis and the internal oblique muscle is necessary; there­fore, the ilio-hypogastric nerve (IH) is protected, left in its bed far from the TIPP dissection.
3. Genital Branch of the Genitofemoral Nerve. Unlike in the Lichtenstein procedure, the
inguinal oor (anterior aspect of the transver­salis fascia) has not to be cleaned up.
The genital branch of the genitofemoral
nerve (GBGF) is left in place alongside the external spermatic vein, called the Amid’s “blue line” [29] which helps to nd the nerve.
If the cord is lifted, in order to facilitate the
parietalization of the cord constituents, atten­tion is paid to avoid any direct or indirect trac­tion on the GBGF leaving in place the external spermatic vessels. This is achieved (Fig.31.3) by passing through the window between these
31.3.3 Third Step: Treatment oftheHernia Sac
In lateral (indirect) hernia, the cremaster muscle is not resected, just longitudinally incised; the sac is dissected free, not resected and will be further reduced in the preperitoneal space through the internal orice. Should you want to resect the sac, it is useful to postpone that because tension­ing the sac helps both the dissection and the parietalization.
31.3.4 Fourth Step: Dissecting thePreperitoneal Space
Completely different from the Lichtenstein repair, the prosthesis will be inserted posteriorly to the transversalis fascia.
Completely different from the on-step tech­nique, the prosthesis will be totally inserted in the preperitoneal space, exactly as in TEP.
The preperitoneal space is entered through the herniated inguinal ring following the inner aspect of the deferens, laterally and cranially to the epigastric vessels (Fig.31.4). These vessels are a landmark to properly enter the preperito­neal space. They are preserved and gently retracted. The dissection starts just behind the transversalis fascia (Fig. 31.5), goes to the Cooper ligament (Fig. 31.6) and the posterior aspect of the pubicum, and comes back posteri­orly to the rectus muscle and to the conjoint ten­don. Provided the dissection keeps contact with the inner part of the abdominal wall, the plane is totally avascular.
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Fig. 31.4 Epigastric vessels, the door for the preperito-
neal space
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31.3.5 Fifth Step: Parietalization
oftheCord Elements
The inguinal ring, muscular, can be easily enlarged. Two Langenbeck’s retractors are intro­duced. The second gauze is then introduced and kept in place with the retractor. That helps to expose the peritoneum being separated from the vas deferens and the spermatic vessels.
It is actually difcult to imagine how much this minimal approach can provide a sufcient exposure onto the preperitoneal structures (Fig.31.7). This approach allows a complete dis­section, under a permanent visual control (blunt but not blind dissection) of the peritoneum, the vas deferens, and the anterior aspect of the inter­nal spermatic vessels (Fig.31.8).
Fig. 31.5 Dissection of the Bogros space and right part
of the Retzius space
Fig. 31.6. Cooper’s ligament
A rst large gauze is inserted in the Bogros
space, acting as an auto-static retractor.
Fig. 31.7 Preperitoneal view during the parietalization
(C cord; P peritoneum; R gauze in the Retzius space)
Fig. 31.8 External view of the laparoscopic “doom tri-
angle” (C cord; D vas deferens; P gauze covering the peri­toneum; SV internal spermatic vessels)
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tice, the length of the index nger in the direction of the pubis, and in the direction of iliac spine as well as the same in width, is adequate.
31.3.7 Seventh Step: Positioning
theMesh
At the end of the dissection, the gauzes are removed before proceeding to placement of the patch. The size of the Polysoft® patch (medium or large) is chosen according to anatomy. The
Fig. 31.9 The forceps shows the urogenital sheath in
between the vas deferens (D) and the internal spermatic vessels (SV)
The vas deferens and the internal spermatic vessels are ensheathed in the urogenital fascia, well seen here in between them (Fig. 31.9), sheath or fascia described by Stoppa etal. [30,
31], and others. They are both gently separated
from the peritoneum as far as needed (angulus of the deferens); psoas segment of the internal sper­matic vessels visualizing the same “lamda” as in laparoscopic procedures (Fig.31.8). The dissec­tion, close to the peritoneum (Fig.31.9), is con­ducted in the visceral compartment at the inner aspect of the sheath, exactly like in TEP and not in the lateral compartment where run the nerves, in particular the genitofemoral and caudally its femoral branch [32].
Its genital branch enters the inguinal canal lat­erally, at the very external edge of the deep ingui­nal ring and joins the external spermatic vein, the so-called “blue line” landmark [29].
medial half of the patch (widest side) is intro­duced rst in direction of the pubic bone. To do so, one retractor lifts the epigastric vessels, and a blade retractor (Fig. 31.10) reclines the perito­neum medially, so as the Cooper ligament becomes visible. The widest end of the patch, grasped with the Kelly clamp, is introduced in the direction of the pubis (Fig. 31.11). Then, the clamp and retractors are removed.
To introduce the lateral part of the patch, two retractors lift the lateral edge of the internal ori­ce made up by the internal oblique muscle, and, using a clamp in one hand and a toothless forceps in the other, the surgeon manages to gently intro­duce the lateral half of the patch in the preperito­neal space. Then the lateral part of the ring is inserted between the parietalized elements and the peritoneum and the internal part of the ring behind to the conjoin tendon (Fig.31.12). Then,
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31.3.6 Sixth Step: Anterolateral Release ofthePeritoneum
Anteriorly and laterally the peritoneum is sepa­rated from the posterior aspect of the arch of the conjoin tendon. If the hernia sac has to be removed, remove it at this step.
The extent of dissection must be sufcient to accommodate the patch, but more extensive dis­section is neither necessary nor useful. In prac-
Fig. 31.10 A blade retractor helps for inserting the mesh
in the preperitoneal space through the hernia orice itself (no additional incision of neither the transversalis fascia nor the epigastric vessels)
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Fig. 31.11 Inserting the memory-ring polypropylene
prosthesis in the preperitoneal space through the hernia orice itself
Fig. 31.12 Inserting the cranial part of the mesh behind
the arch of the conjoin tendon
the retractors are removed, and deployment of the patch is achieved (and checked) with the nger by pushing on the memory-ring (Fig.31.13).
The counterpressure exerted by the patient, especially under local or locoregional anesthesia, can facilitate and check a correct deployment (Fig.31.14).
If the mesh does not correctly t the space, and/or if the cranial part of the mesh remains unfold and sharp, consider that the dissection has not been wide enough. Remove the mesh, com­plete the dissection, and reinsert the mesh.
No xation (Fig. 31.14) is performed, the mesh being rmly applied by the abdominal pressure to the deep aspect of the previously pre­served inguinal oor (epigastric vessels not tran­sected and transversalis fascia not open in case
Fig. 31.13 Check the correct positioning of the mesh in
between the peritoneum and the abdominal wall (c cord, D vas deferens, EV epigastric vessels, M mesh, SV internal spermatic vessels, TF transversalis fascia)
Fig. 31.14 Not any xation is required
Fig. 31.15 While removing the retractors, the deep
inguinal ring retracts
of lateral hernias, sutured in case of medial ones).
While removing the retractors, the deep ingui­nal ring retracts (Fig. 31.15), leaving the mesh totally retro-parietal (Fig.31.16).