Racional: Correção de hérnia inguinal é o procedimento mais comum em cirurgia geral, sendo que 80.000 operações são realizadas anualmente na Grã-Bretanha, 100.000 na França e 700.000 nos EUA. Dada à sua alta frequência tem grande impacto, tanto nos aspectos médicos como nos econômicos. Objetivo: Analisar as complicações pós-operatórias imediatas comparando hernioplastia com e sem tela. Método: Ensaio clínico randomizado, com a inclusão de 263 pacientes que foram submetidos à operação de hérnia inguinal, randomizados por tabela de randomização. Os tratamentos foram para o grupo com tela Lichtenstein e ao sem malha técnica de Bassini. Usaram-se envelopes sequencialmente numeradas opacos após terem sido cumpridos os critérios de inclusão. As variáveis analisadas foram: dor pós-operatória, seroma, hematoma, infecção, retorno às atividades normais e recorrência. Resultados: A idade média foi de 55,5 anos; 88% dos pacientes eram mulheres e 12% homens. A dor foi maior nos pacientes operados com tela. Conclusões: O grupo com tela teve menos complicações pós-operatórias imediatas e significativamente mais rápido retorno ao trabalho do que hernioplastia sem tela, sendo esta uma das conclusões mais importantes.

Background: Inguinal hernia repair is the most common procedure in general surgery and 80,000 operations are performed annually in Great Britain, 100,000 in France and 700,000 in the US. Given its high frequency has a major impact, both in the medical and economic aspects. Aim: Analyze the immediate postoperative complications comparing mesh versus non mesh hernioplasty. Method: Randomized control trial, with the enrollment of 263 patients underwent surgery for inguinal hernia randomized by randomization table. Treatment (mesh, Lichtenstein or without mesh, Bassini technique) was assigned using sequentially numbered opaque envelopes having fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The variables analyzed were: postoperative pain, seroma, hematoma, infection, return to normal activities and recurrence. Results: The mean age was 55.5 years, 88% patients were male and 12% female. The pain was higher in patients operated with mesh. Conclusions: The inguinal hernia repair mesh group had less immediate postoperative complications and significantly earlier return to work than hernioplasty without mesh, this being one of the most important conclusions.

The 90 % of the bowel obstruction caused by intestinal malrotation occurred in children younger than 1 year, this type of obstruction is very uncommon in adults. This is a male of 31 years old, with history of abdominal pain, vomits and constipation since he was a child. These symptoms were sporadical, he didn't need any surgical treatment. Recently he was admitted in our institution presenting similar symptoms, without remission of them. After imaging and laboratory studies, was performed a surgery, and the intraoperatoty diagnosis was intestinal malrotation type I. The surgical treatment was the Ladd Operation. The postsurgery evolution was good. Discharged 4 days after the surgery. The aim of this article is to present a rare case of intestinal obstruction in adults caused for an intestinal malrotation.

El 90 % de los casos de obstrucción por malrotación intestinal ocurre en niños menores de 1 año de edad, siendo altamente infrecuente en adultos. Un paciente de sexo masculino, de 31 años de edad, con antecedente de episodios de dolor abdominal, vómitos y constipación que alternaban con períodos de normalidad desde la niñez es admitido en el hospital por sintomatología similar, la que no cede. Luego de estudios radiológicos y de laboratorio se decide su intervención quirúrgica con el diagnóstico de obstrucción intestinal. El diagnóstico intraoperatorio realizado fue de malrotación intestinal tipo I, practicándose la operación de Ladd. La evolución del paciente es favorable. La infrecuente presentación de esta patología en adultos es lo que motiva la presentación del caso.