Table 1

Table showing material, name and values of thickness, ultimate tensile strength, stiffness, pore size and weight for heavyweight, lightweight commercial meshes and mosquito meshes

Mesh brand	Mesh material	Pore size (mm)	Weight (g/m²)	Thickness (mm)	Ultimate tensile strength (N/cm)	Stiffness (N/mm²)	Reference
Heavyweight
Parietex (TECR)	Polyester	2	120	0.53	93	66	Hollinski et al 50 Deeken and Lake30
Parietex Flat SheeT 2D Mesh (TEC)	Polyester	2	109.6*	0.53*	109	57	Hollinski et al 50 Deeken and Lake30
Surgipro	Polypropylene	0.8	97*	0.57	121	45	Hollinski et al 50 Deeken and Lake30
Marlex	Polypropylene	0.46	95	0.63	93	3.9	Hollinski et al 50 Deeken and Lake30
PROLENE Mesh	Polypropylene	1.2*	93.8*	0.5*	99	14	Hollinski et al 50 Deeken and Lake30
Parietene	Polypropylene	1.3*	77.5*	0.53	60	10	Hollinski et al 50 Deeken and Lake30
Lightweight
ULTRAPRO	Polypropylene and polyglecaprone	2.28	43*	0.47*	104	5.8	Hollinski et al 50 Deeken and Lake30
VYPRO II	Polypropylene and polyglactin	2.6	40	0.39	71	10	Hollinski et al 50 Deeken and Lake30
Parietene Light	Polypropylene	1.6*	37*	0.36	40	3.6	Hollinski et al 50 Deeken and Lake30
TIMESH Light	Titanium–polypropylene composite	1.24	33	0.29	21	23	Hollinski et al 50 Deeken and Lake30
VYPRO	Polypropylene and polyglactin	3	26	0.34	88	16	Hollinski et al 50 Deeken and Lake30
TIMESH ExtraLight	Titanium–polypropylene composite	1.24	16	0.21	11	17	Hollinski et al 50 Deeken and Lake30
Mosquito meshes
India MM	Unknown	1.5	60.1	na	na	na	Mitura and Kozieł31
Ghana MM	Unknown	2.4	49.8	na	na	na	Mitura and Kozieł31
Ethiopia MM	Unknown	2.3	41.2	na	na	na	Mitura and Kozieł31
Tanzania MM	Unknown	2.7	35.2	na	na	na	Mitura and Kozieł31
Zambia MM	Unknown	2	31.2	na	na	na	Mitura and Kozieł31
Nigeria MM	Unknown	2	15	na	na	na	Mitura and Kozieł31
UK MM1	Nylon	1.16	34.3	0.16	27.5	0.2	Grillo et al (unpublished)
UK MM2	Polyester	2.25	29.3	0.16	22	0.12	Grillo et al (unpublished)
MSQ1	Polyester	na	na	0.23	23.2	na	Ambroziak et al 33
MSQ2	Polyester	na	na	0.20	12.8	na	Ambroziak et al 33
MSQ3	Polyester	na	na	0.21	18.1	na	Ambroziak et al 33
MSQ4	Polyester	na	na	0.24	21.1	na	Ambroziak et al 33
Operation hernia MM	Polyethylene	1.9	53.7	0.48	42.7†	na	Sanders et al 34
Native tissue
Transversalis fascia		na	na	0.9	na	3	Kureshi et al 51
Posterior rectus sheath		na	na	0.09	8.5	na	Anurov et al 52

Values of thickness and stiffness of human transversalis fascia are also displayed in the table.51 Values of thickness and ultimate tensile strength of posterior rectus sheath are displayed in the table.52 Values of pore size, weight and thickness are obtained from Deeken and Lake.30
*Average calculated from range of values reviewed by Deeken and Lake.30 Values of ultimate tensile strength and stiffness were obtained from Hollinski et al.50
†Value of ultimate tensile strength of mosquito mesh from Hernia International is in the vertical (warp) direction.34
MM, mosquito-net mesh.