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Article History

Received: 10 August 2025

Accepted: 27 October 2025

First Online: 11 November 2025

Disclosures

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: Dr Edward Young is a recipient of the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship and the Hospital Research Foundation Group Higher Degree by Research Top-up Scholarship. Prof Guy Maddern is a recipient of the Hospital Research Foundation Group Project Grant (2024-S-RETRO-002-QA 25249). The project received the following products as donations from their respective companies: Reperen® mesh, by IconLab Inc. (California, USA); TIGR® mesh, by Novus Scientific AB (Uppsala, Sweden); V-LOC® sutures, by Medtronic Australia Pty Ltd (Sydney, Australia). Any other mesh, suture, or consumable used in the study that is not otherwise declared here was purchased by the authors or salvaged from clinical practice. The project was conceived, conducted, and reported by the authors in complete independence, without any involvement at any stage from any biomedical company. A/Prof Alex Karatassas, Dr Jean Wong, Prof Peter Hewett, Ms Sarah Jesse, Dr Celine Li, A/Prof Andrew Ruszkiewwicz, A/Prof John Finnie, Dr Anita Jacombs, and Mr Darren Tonkin have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose.

: Animal ethics was approved by the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) Animal Ethics Committee (AEC) in March 2024. Reference number SAM-23–085.