Table 1.
Patient demographics and clinical characteristics
| Age (y) | |
| Mean | 57.5 |
| Range | 34–80 |
| Sex, n | |
| Male | 16 |
| Female | 29a |
| BMI, kg/m2 | |
| Mean | 36.7 |
| Range | 21–65 |
| Hernia type, n | |
| Primary | 3 |
| Incisional | 42 |
| VHWG Grade,b n | |
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 9 |
| 3 | 25 |
| 4 | 11 |
| Mean | 3 |
| Comorbidities, n (%) | |
| History of abdominal wall infection | 33 (73) |
| History of MRSA abdominal wall infection | 10 (22) |
| COPD/emphysema | 14 (31) |
| Malnutrition/low preoperative serum albumin | 12 (27) |
| Diabetes mellitus | 11 (25) |
| Hypertension | 11 (25) |
| Smoking | 9 (20) |
| Stoma present | 6 (13) |
| Renal failure | 2 (4) |
| Therapeutic use of corticosteroids | 2 (4) |
| Chronic panniculitis | 2 (4) |
| History of coronary artery bypass graft | 2 (4) |
| Breast cancer | 2 (4) |
| Congestive heart failure | 2 (4) |
| Atrial fibrillation | 2 (4) |
| Crohn’s disease | 2 (4) |
| Thoracic aneurysm | 2 (4) |
| Other | 23 (51) |
aOne patient presented 2 years after initial treatment. This patient had two separate procedures and was considered as two separate cases
bSee Fig. 1 for explanation of VHWG grades
BMI body mass index, COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, MRSA methicillin-resistant S. aureus