HYPOTHESIS The combination of cesarean section with inguinal or umbilical hernia repair is safe, effective, and well-accepted compared with cesarean section alone. DESIGN Retrospective comparative study. SETTING Tertiary care university hospital. PATIENTS Eight patients undergoing cesarean section combined with hernia repair (inguinal in 5 and umbilical in 3) vs 305 low-risk patients unde...

INTRODUCTION The association of bowel tumor and inguinal hernia is rare. We report according to our research the first case of the migration of a small bowel schwannoma into an inguinal hernia. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 51-year-old Moroccan malen admitted for a non-reducible right inguinal hernia in which surgical exploration showed the presence of a small bowel tumor that had...

An Amyand's hernia refers to the presence of an appendix within an inguinal hernia sac. This uncommon finding occurs in less than 1% of all right side inguinal hernias; to date, this finding has been reported in only 14 patients with left side inguinal hernias. The preoperative diagnosis of this condition is uncommon. We report the 15th case of a left side Amyand's hernia that was diagnosed pre...

More than 1 million inguinal hernia repairs are performed in Europe and the US annually. Although antibiotic prophylaxis is not required in clean, elective procedures, the routine use of implants (90% of inguinal hernia repairs are performed with mesh) makes the topic controversial. The European Hernia Society does not recommend routine antibiotic prophylaxis for elective inguinal hernia repair...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate the role of fibrillar extracellular matrix components in the pathogenesis of inguinal hernias. METHODS samples of the transverse fascia and of the anterior sheath of the rectus abdominis muscle were collected from 40 men aged between 20 and 60 years with type II and IIIA Nyhus inguinal hernia and from 10 fresh male cadavers (controls) without hernia in the same age range...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of local anesthesia in surgical treatment of inguinal hernia, compared with spinal anesthesia. Ninety-six patients who underwent hernia repair between December 1999 and April 2002 were included prospectively. The patients were assigned randomly to two groups according to their admission numbers. Group I included 47 patients under...

BACKGROUND Up to one-third of patients with an inguinal hernia have no symptoms from the hernia. The aim of this study was to determine the long-term outcome of patients with a painless inguinal hernia randomized to observation or operation. METHODS Some 160 men aged 55 years or more with a painless inguinal hernia were randomized to observation or operation between 2001 and 2003. All were in...

OBJECTIVE Inguinal ovarian hernias are common in young girls. Many articles in medical literature recommend early surgery for inguinal ovarian hernia because of the risk of torsion of the prolapsed ovary. However, since many irreducible herniated ovaries in newborn infants and during early infancy undergo spontaneous reduction by the age of 9 months, the policy at our institute is to obtain inf...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES About 20% of patients with inguinal hernia present bilateral hernias in the diagnosis. In these cases, laparoscopic procedure is considered gold standard approach. Mesh fixation is considered important step toward avoiding recurrence. However, because of cost and risk of pain, real need for mesh fixation has been debated. For bilateral inguinal hernias, there are few s...

.. Objective: To compare the results of Inguinal Hernia repair using commonly employed methods of Bassini’s and Mesh repair. Methodology: This study included 90 cases of hernia repair ranging over a period of 18 months from October 2008 to Mar 2010 at Social Security Hospital Lahore. All the cases were done by the consultants and senior surgeons. The methods of repair included Bassini’s and Her...