Hernia risk study pulled before it even started
NCT ID NCT05509452
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study was designed to find out why some patients develop incisional hernias after emergency abdominal surgery. It planned to follow adults who had emergency midline laparotomy and look at factors like age, weight, smoking, and infection. However, the study was withdrawn before enrolling any participants, so no results are available.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Expected to start
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Jun 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Mar 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Any patient operated with an emergency midline laparotomy and followed up in our clinic will be evaluated for enrollment. Patients will be eligible if they comply with the inclusion and exclusion criteria listed above. We aim to include a total of 500 patients for the first follow-up. This is based on a drop out and long-term death of approximately 50%, incisional hernia rate of 20% and 10 risk factors in multivariate analysis requiring 100 patients with incisional hernias. 100 incisional hernias = 500 patients included at first post-operative follow up.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Age of 18 years or above and * Unscheduled midline laparotomy in an emergency or subacute setting, involving perforated bowel, bowel obstruction, bowel ischemia (due to mesenteric vascular disease or incarceration), inflammatory diseases (e.g. diverticulitis, appendicitis, ulcerative colitis, cholecystitis and Crohn's disease), abscesses, non-traumatic intraabdominal bleeding and any emergency re-operation to elective surgery Exclusion Criteria: * Age below 18 years * Patients with mental or physical disorders making follow-up impossible * Patients were no fascial closure is performed
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Department of Gastrointestinal- and Hepatic diseases, Surgical Section,
Herlev, 2730, Denmark
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