Emergency inguinal hernioplasties in a tertiary public Hospital in Athens Greece, during the economic crisis.

What we found is that although an equal number of inguinal hernioplasties were performed in both periods, the later one was characterized by a decrease of elective and an increase of emergency operations, an increase of the patients who presented with intestinal ischemia, a prolongation of their hospital stay and a higher cost of their treatment, as well as an increased number of patients needing ICU hospitalization although this did not reach statistical significance.

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