Incidencia de las hernias abdominales y técnicas quirúrgicas en el Hospital General Puyo período 2016-2018

Abstract

The present investigation aims to identify the most prevalent risk factors and to propone a risk profile. This investigation is descriptive, individual, observational and retrospective. The patient records of the patients with stomach hernias will be analyzed. It will be carried out at General Hospital Puyo, at General Surgery service from 2016 to 2018. The patient records with umbilical hernia diagnosis were checked. A data base was created by the authors. We evaluated 195 patient records. The findings which were found regarding to the average of age was 46 years old with higher prevalence, gender, occupation, nutritional state such as overweight with 55%. We can observe congenital weakness of a part of the abdominal wall or when the zone of the wall abdominal get weak by passing the time because of the physical effort, overweight, obesity, kind of occupation and aging cause hernias. We have proposed to investigate the different kinds of Abdominal Hernias such as inguinal, umbilical, ventral and femoral because according to different scientific articles of several authors state that inguinal hernia occurs more frequently in men while umbilical hernia occurs more frequently in women