“A hernia happens at weak spots in the belly wall. It’s not really in the muscle, but the tough stuff called fascia that ...

Department of Anesthesiology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China Truncal fascial plane blocks (TFPBs), including ... throughout the 12-month follow-up period. Hernia surgery ...

The researchers have developed a new model to project the performance of different mesh types for patients undergoing ventral hernia repair (VHR). Their findings are published in the Journal of ...

Introduction Inguinal hernia mesh repair is the standard care for symptomatic inguinal hernia. Mesh fixation is used to keep mesh in place for which various mesh fixation techniques have been used in ...

The diagnosis? A sports hernia. This condition also goes by many other names, including athletic pubalgia and Gilmore's groin - after the late British surgeon Jerry Gilmore who was the first to coin ...

You get a hernia when an organ or fatty tissue squeezes through a weak spot in a surrounding muscle or connective tissue called fascia. Hernias often happen where the belly wall is weaker ...

This review update found that there may be little to no difference between the TAPP and TEP techniques for serious adverse events, hernia recurrence, or chronic pain (low- to very-low-certainty ...

Constipation and strain during bowel movements can increase your risk for a hernia, a bulge of tissue that pushes through the muscle. A hernia leading to new or additional constipation can be a sign ...