Aquina and colleagues' study, appearing in Surgery, [1] investigated the reasons for recurrence of ventral hernia (VHR) and inguinal hernia (IHR), to determine the relative importance of patient, ...

Undergoing laparoscopic repair of primary ventral hernias (PVHs) reduced the likelihood that patients would experience surgical site infection by 85%, but patients spent an additional day in the ...

For an abdominal wall hernia repair, also known as a ventral hernia repair, the most common surgical approaches have been laparoscopic and open techniques. But a new approach for repairing hernias has ...

The number of patients with incisional, umbilical or linea alba hernias is about 13 000 per year in Poland [1]. These are potential patients for laparoscopic procedures. Laparoscopic intraperitoneal ...

Incisional hernias can complicate up to one in four laparotomy procedures, and successful repair remains a significant clinical challenge for surgeons. Recently, the surgical technique of ventral ...

First-ever investigational device exemption clinical study for robotic-assisted hernia repair in the U.S. presented at the American Hernia Society annual meeting Enable Hernia Repair is a prospective, ...

Your abdominal muscles keep your organs and intestines in place. The protrusion of abdominal organs through a weak spot in the abdominal wall is called a hernia. Ventral hernias involve the front part ...

IN 1889, Edward Bassini, of Italy, in prefacing his report on 251 cases of inguinal hernia, said: "After all that has been written with such feverish diligence up to the present time concerning the ...

Cutting edge technology may come with downsides. For an abdominal wall hernia repair, also known as a ventral hernia repair, the most common surgical approaches have been laparoscopic and open ...