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NCT06306976

Shear-Wave Elastography

Enrolling by Invitation
NAAges 18+Interventional
Prisma Health-Upstate
~90 participants
Updated 2026-06-12 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:Elective Midline LaparotomyImaging: UltrasoundTensiometry

At a glance

Recruiting sites
0 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Determine Elasticity of Abdominal Wall Muscles (Specific Aim 1)
Measured over Study participation ends after surgery
+2 more outcomes measured

Conditions

Ventral Incisional Hernia

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Where it's being run

1 sites across 1 states
South Carolina1

Study leadership

  • Wes Love, MD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Prisma Health

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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

Patients \>18 y/o.
Midline ventral / incisional hernia.
Plan for open retromuscular incisional hernia repair.

Exclusion

Prior VHR with mesh.
Isolated subxiphoid (European Hernia Society (EHS) classification M1) or suprapubic hernias (EHS classification M5)
History of flank incisions. M1 (midline position 1) is defined as the xiphoid process down to a point 3cm below the xiphoid. M5 (midline position 5) is defined as the pubis to a point 3cm above the pubis.
Infected / contaminated cases.
Plan for robotic, laparoscopic, or open onlay repair, or plan for primary (non-mesh) repair.

What this trial measures

  • Determine Elasticity of Abdominal Wall Muscles (Specific Aim 1)Study participation ends after surgery

    Determine the elasticity of abdominal wall muscles (rectus abdominis, external oblique, internal oblique, and transversus abdominis) through shear wave elastography in patients with midline incisional hernias of varying complexity and morphology using Ultrasound measurements.

  • Correlate Elastography measurements with MFR (Specific Aim 2)Study participation ends after surgery

    Correlate shear wave elastography measurements of the abdominal wall with the extent of MFR required to achieve fascial closure using Ultrasound measurements.

  • Correlate SWE Assessment to Tensiometer (Specific Aim 3)Study participation ends after surgery

    Correlate SWE-determined elasticity of abdominal wall to intraoperative assessment of tension required to achieve fascial closure using Tensiometry.