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 ...

Laparoscopic ventral hernia repair has significantly increased compared with open surgery. In addition to being safe, this type of repair is associated with a shorter length of stay and lower cost of ...

While offering similar clinical benefits at 1 year, a medium-weight polypropylene mesh was no better for pain control than a heavy-weight mesh in patients who underwent open retromuscular ventral ...

Laparascopic repair of ventral hernias has advanced and overcome many challenges during the past twenty years, and patients who are obese, diabetic and have a hernia no larger than 10 cm in width are ...

Not fixating the mesh in open retromuscular ventral hernia repair (RVHR) was noninferior to fixation, a single-center clinical trial found. Hernia recurrence rates at 1 year were similar between the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found no hernia recurrence in patients who underwent repair for a primary ventral hernia with an ...

Medtronic PLC (NYSE:MDT) released on Thursday results from the Enable Hernia Repair clinical study evaluating the performance of the Hugo robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) system in inguinal and ventral ...

Different materials, different outcomes: Time-to-recurrence was longest for long-acting resorbable meshes (166.4 months), followed by synthetic meshes (132.1 months), and shortest for biologic meshes ...

New Rochelle, NY, May 16, 2016--Laparascopic repair of ventral hernias has advanced and overcome many challenges during the past two decades, and patients who are obese, diabetic, and have a hernia no ...

Laparascopic repair of ventral hernias has advanced and overcome many challenges during the past two decades, and patients who are obese, diabetic, and have a hernia no larger than 10 cm in width are ...