Dewulf, Maxime
Dietz, Ulrich A.
Montgomery, Agneta
Pauli, Eric M.
Marturano, Matthew N.
Ayuso, Sullivan A.
Augenstein, Vedra A.
Lambrecht, Jan R.
Köhler, Gernot
Keller, Nicola
Wiegering, Armin
Muysoms, Filip
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Würzburg
Article History
Accepted: 6 October 2022
First Online: 8 December 2022
Declarations
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: M. Dewulf, A. Montgomery, M.N. Marturano, S.A. Ayuso, G. Köhler, N. Keller and A. Wiegering have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose. E.M. Pauli reports having received speaker honorarium from Becton Dickinson, Medtronic, Ovesco and Boston Scientific, consultancy fees from Boston Scientific, Actuated Biomedical, Baxter, Wells Fargo, Cook Biotech, CMR Surgical, Neptune Medical, Surgimatix, Boehringer Laboratories, Allergan and Noah Medical and royalties from UpToDate and Springer. V.A. Augenstein reports having received consultancy fees from Allergan, Acelity, Medtronic, Intuitive and Bard-Davol. J.R. Lambrechts reports having received consultancy fees from Intuitive and Medtronic. F. Muysoms reports having received research grants from Intuitive, Medtronic and Dynamesh, speaker’s honorarium from Medtronic, Bard-Davol, Dynamesh, Intuitive and WL Gore and consultancy fees from Medtronic, Intuitive and CMR Surgical. The Kantonsspital Olten (KSO) has been a European Reference Centre for DaVinci Hernia Surgery (Intuitive) since 2019; U.A. Dietz is a proctor for Intuitive and the income from this activity goes in full to the KSO.
: The data collection of this study regarding the IPST mesh (Kantonsspital Olten) is based on a positive ethics vote of the Ethics Committee Northwestern Switzerland (No. 2019-02046), and the study was performed based on the ethical guidelines specified therein. For the remaining data presented in this manuscript, the ethics approval is disclosed in the respective original publications (see references). For images or other information in the manuscript that can be used to identify patients, written consent was obtained from the patients and/or their legal representatives.