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Table 5 Temporally-related distribution of pain in both groups

From: Incidence of pain after inguinal hernia repair in the elderly. A retrospective historical cohort evaluation of 18-years’ experience with a mesh & plug inguinal hernia repair method on about 3000 patients

 

Group A <65 yrs.

(1795 pts.)

Group B >65 yrs.

(1107 pts.)

p

Early postoperative pain* (VAS>4)

484

(26.9%)

251

(22.6%)

0.009

Postoperative pain (after 2 weeks until 30 days) (VAS>4)

287

(16%)

149

(13.4%)

0.064

Rare pain (not continous) (VAS<4) (after 6 months)

628

(34.9%)

418

(37.7%)

0.136

Chronic pain (continous)

(VAS>7) (after 6 months)

2 pts.

(0.12%)

1 pts.

(0.09%)

0.837

  1. * any pain despite analgesics assumption.