Inguinal hernia in women are less common than in men and have unique symptoms. They may occur more frequently during or after ...

Open hernia repair can be done under general, spinal, or local anesthesia. Surgical repair is recommended for inguinal hernias that are causing pain or other symptoms and for hernias that are ...

The traditional treatment for hernias has been open surgery with a large incision that allows the surgeon to push the hernia ...

inguinal hernias, ventral hernias, incisional hernias, recurrent hernias, mesh problems, and chronic groin pain. Our multidisciplinary team of hernia specialists uses a wide variety of surgical ...

The open peritoneal repair of an inguinal hernia was first described in the late 1990s, and Kugel patch inguinal hernia repair is one of the established treatment now, since it is less invasive ...

It offers a compromise between open surgery and coelioscopy ... selection of prostheses to cover all sized defects for umbilical hernias and low-grade ventral hernias.

If an inguinal hernia becomes incarcerated or strangulated, a person will require emergency surgery to treat any complications and repair the abdominal wall. A surgeon may perform open or ...

About 5% of primary inguinal hernia repairs are undertaken as emergencies. Abdominal hernias usually do not recur in children. They do reappear, however, in about 10 percent of adults. Surgery is ...