Clinical trialNCT00351455CompletedInterventional

Watchful Waiting of Incisional Hernias

SponsorBaylor College of MedicineEnrollment50Incisional HerniaUmbilical HerniaVentral Hernia

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Summary

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This study is being conducted to gain a better understanding of the quality of life for patients with a diagnosis of primary and recurrent incisional hernias and 1) who decline to have surgery to repair the hernia or 2) patients who cannot have surgery because their health will not allow them or 3O if surgery to repair the hernia is completed. A comparison will be made between those who receive surgery and those who do not.

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Investigators

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Charles Bellows, III, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Michael E. Debakey Va Medical Center
Houston, Texas, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 May 2006
Primary completion: 31 Jan 2009
Completion: 31 Jan 2009
Last update posted: 10 May 2023
Registered enrollment: 50
Registry id: NCT00351455

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