Background:
Ventral hernias (VH) account for 25% of abdominal wall hernias with a greater prevalence in female patients. Being one of the most common procedures amongst general surgeons, laparoscopic repair of ventral hernias spurs quite the debate with respect to the topic of trocar placement. Trocar placement is seldom thought to be a function of a severely reduced rate of VH recurrence. Yet, placement of trocars ispilateral to the VH may lead to an increased rate of recurrence and pain post
Introduction: Approximately 3-13% of patients with abdominal surgery develop a ventral hernia and over 350,000 ventral hernias are repaired annually. A surgical site infection (SSI) after ventral hernia repair (VHR), either open or laparoscopic, is a highly morbid complication associated with increasing health care costs, hernia recurrences, mesh infections and their complications. With the many advances in preoperative, operative and post-operative care the current incidence of surgical sites
Introduction:
Transplant patients are at increased risk for hernia formation due to the impairment in normal collagen synthesis and wound healing process inherent to postoperative immunosuppressive therapy. After kidney transplantation, the incisional hernia formation ranges from 1.6 to 18% and most of the cases presented within the first 5 years post-transplant.
In the general population, hernia recurrence after primary repair approaches 50%, the addition of mesh has lowered that number to ab
Background: While barium contrast (Ba) is the most commonly used method in the diagnosis of paraesophageal hernias (PEH), it is impractical for long-term patient follow-up post repair, given its cost, radiation exposure, procedure time and lack of patient compliance. PEH’s can be visible on chest X-ray (CXR) specially when they are large in size, however it’s diagnostic accuracy is unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of CXR for the diagnosis of PEH in two clinical se
Introduction: Laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair has certain advantages over open repair including less pain and an earlier return to normal activity. Concurrent robotic inguinal hernia repair at the time of prostatectomy has been shown to have a lower recurrence rate than open repair. Robotic surgery has improved high definition visualization and articulating instruments with enhanced dexterity which could improve outcomes. A series of robotic, laparoscopic inguinal hernia repairs with mesh i