Morrell, David J.
DeLong, Colin G.
Horne, Charlotte M.
Pauli, Eric M.
Article History
Received: 20 April 2021
Accepted: 7 June 2021
First Online: 14 June 2021
Declarations
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: Eric Pauli reports teaching honoraria, research support, and Data and Safety Monitoring Board membership for Beckton, Dickinson and Company (BD), teaching honoraria and consultant fees from Boston Scientific Corp., teaching honoraria from Cook Biotech, Inc., consulting fees and research support from Actuated Medical, Inc., royalties from Springer, royalties from UpToDate, Inc., consulting fees from Wells Fargo and Company, consulting fees from CMS Robotics, teaching honoraria from Medtronic, PLC, and consulting fees from Baxter International, Inc. unrelated to this report. Charlotte Horne reports teaching honoraria for Medtronic, PLC unrelated to this report. The remaining authors have no conflicts of interest.
: Following approval by the Penn State Health institutional review board, a prospectively maintained, quality improvement database (Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative) of patients who had undergone ventral hernia repair performed by a single abdominal wall reconstructive surgeon was queried to identify all patients that had presented for repair of thoracoabdominal hernias between August 2013 and September 2019.
: Due to the retrospective nature of this study, informed consent was waived by the institutional review board.