Transabdominal pre-peritoneal mesh in inguinal hernia repair in elderly: end point of our experience.

Background: Aim of this study is to present our standardized laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal hernia repair (TAPP) technique, and to study our experience in the elderly as far as concerns preoperative and postoperative variables.

Methods: We described our standardized TAPP technique according with Stuttgart technique 1, and we evalutated our team's experience in TAPP inguinal hernia repair in elderly (> 65 yrs) and in young patients (< 65 yrs).

Results: We retrospectively reviewed our Surgery Division's experience about TAPP; we included in our study 185 patients.