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Inguinal Hernia: full-pipeline trial registry

2 of 12 indexed Inguinal Hernia trials are currently recruiting.

Corpus placement: #1,429 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

12 US clinical trials · 2 currently recruiting · #1,429 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Inguinal Hernia: 12 US clinical trials tracked, 2 recruiting.

Inguinal Hernia is the subject of 12 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 2 of them currently open to new participants. 2 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 2 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Intuitive Surgical, running 2 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition inguinal-hernia

OPEN 2 | RECR 17% | LATE 2 | EARLY 2 | RANK #1429 | SPON 2

Nearest open-share peer: Acute Renal Failure (17% recruiting · 6 trials)

Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Re41.7%Adenocarcinoma of the Rectum41.7%Inguinal Hernia (this)17%Adherence, Patient16.7%Accelerated Phase Chronic My0%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Inguinal Hernia

Inguinal Hernia lists 2 open slots (17% of 12 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Inguinal Hernia on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Inguinal Hernia is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    2 of 12 indexed trials (16.7%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. One sponsor concentrates Inguinal Hernia research.

    Intuitive Surgical accounts for 2 of 12 trials (16.7%). 11 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Typical Inguinal Hernia enrolment sits around 200 participants.

    Median target enrolment is 200 among the 12 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 4 of those (33.3%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Inguinal Hernia research is mostly interventional.

    9 interventional and 3 observational studies make up this index (75% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 11Phase 21Phase 42

Open and recent trials

12 total, page 1 of 1

RECRUITING NA 200 participants

Activity Restrictions After Inguinal Hernia Repair

VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System

NCT05867134

RECRUITING NA 80 participants

A Pilot Study of Local Anesthesia for Inguinal Hernia Surgery in Older Adults

University of Wisconsin, Madison

NCT04706026

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 4 904 participants

No Opioids vs. Minimal Opioids Following Inguinal Hernia Repair

Clayton Petro

NCT05929937

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING 801 participants

Natural History of Infants With Patent Processus Vaginalis

Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

NCT03042858

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 2 252 participants

Treatment of Occult Inguinal Hernias

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

NCT04815707

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Early Phase 1 200 participants

Post-operative Pain Control-TAP Block Using Exparel vs. Marcaine for Hernia Repairs

Leslie Son

NCT05177991

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 193 participants

Medtronic Hugo™ Robotic Assisted Surgery (RAS) System in Hernia Surgery (Enable Hernia Repair)

Medtronic - MITG

NCT06445504

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 4 164 participants

Methocarbamol in Ventral and Inguinal HR

Prisma Health-Upstate

NCT05388929

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 53 participants

Clinical Investigation of the da Vinci Surgical System

Intuitive Surgical

NCT05682742

COMPLETED 944 participants

A Prospective Study to Compare the Clinical Outcomes, Pain and Patient Quality of Life for Hernia Patients

Intuitive Surgical

NCT02715622

COMPLETED 90 participants

Analgesia in Children Using Caudal Epidural Ropivacaine

Loma Linda University

NCT01494272

COMPLETED NA 42 participants

Trial of Laparoscopic Compared to Open Inguinal Hernia Repair in Children Younger Than 3 Years

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

NCT00716768

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 1
Phase 2 1
Phase 4 2

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Inguinal Hernia records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Hernia repair Procedure
1 trials
Open Inguinal Hernia Repair Procedure
1 trials
Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair Procedure
1 trials
Infants without PPV Other
1 trials
Infants with PPV Other
1 trials
Robotic-Assisted Surgery (RAS) Hernia Repair Surgery Device
1 trials
Standard opioid plus methocarbamol Drug
1 trials
Standard Opioid Drug
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Inguinal Hernia trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Texas 4 trials
Ohio 3 trials
Michigan 3 trials
Florida 3 trials
California 3 trials
Wisconsin 2 trials
Tennessee 2 trials
South Carolina 2 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Inguinal Hernia page

12 registered trials, 2 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Inguinal Hernia condition card totals 12 registered trials; most-linked intervention Hernia repair; top US site state Texas. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.