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Analyzing Material Changes Consistent with Degradation of Explanted Polymeric Hernia Mesh Related to Clinical Characteristics

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Journal Surg Endosc
Publisher Springer
Date 2022 Mar 8
PMID 35257210
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Abstract

Background: Proposed mechanisms that potentially contribute to polypropylene mesh degradation after in vivo exposure include oxidizing species and mechanical strains induced by normal healing, tissue integration, muscle contraction, and the immediate and chronic inflammatory responses.

Methods: This study explores these potential degradation mechanisms using 63 mesh implants retrieved from patients after a median implantation time of 24 months following hernia repair surgery (mesh explants) and analysis of multivariate associations between the material changes and clinical characteristics. Specifically, polypropylene mesh degradation was characterized in terms of material changes in surface oxidation, crystallinity and mechanical properties, and clinical characteristics included mesh placement location, medical history and mesh selection.

Results: Compared to pristine control samples, subsets of mesh explants had evidence of surface oxidation, altered crystallinity, or changed mechanical properties. Using multivariate statistical approach to control for clinical characteristics, infection was a significant factor affecting changes in mesh stiffness and mesh class was a significant factor affecting polypropylene crystallinity changes.

Conclusions: Highly variable in vivo conditions expose mesh to mechanisms that alter clinical outcomes and potentially contribute to mesh degradation. These PP mesh explants after 0.5 to 13 years in vivo had measurable changes in surface chemistry, crystallinity and mechanical properties, with significant trends associated with factors of mesh placement, mesh class, and infection.

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