Morgagni Hernia is a rare form of diaphragmatic hernia. It is mainly asymptomatic and often identified incidentally during surgery. Tension-free synthetic mesh repair is the preferred treatment modality. However, the use of synthetic mesh concurrently during a clean-contaminated surgery such as sleeve gastrectomy remains controversial due to the remote possibility of mesh infection. A middle-ag...

s:3604:"During pregnancy, the placenta delivers "cord blood" to the baby through the umbilical cord serving as a lifeline of nourishment from the mother to baby. At birth, "cord blood" remains in the umbilical cord and placenta and until recently, had typically been discarded. The tragedy of this practice is that "cord blood" contains very special cells called "stem cells". Recent advances in m...

PURPOSE Traditionally, the surgical repair of umbilical hernia in cirrhotic patients with ascites is avoided because of a significant recurrence rate and perioperative morbidity/mortality. However, recent reports recommend early elective surgery in these patients because surgery-related complications can be reduced with minimally invasive surgery and development of perioperative patient care. T...

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...

UNLABELLED The umbilical area can present with a variety of signs associated with an intra abdominal malignancy. An umbilical/paraumbilical hernia might itself be a sign of an internal malignancy. The correlation between the presence of an umbilical/paraumbilical hernia and an intra abdominal malignancy has been previously based only on case reports. The aim of the study was to evaluate the sig...

1Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2The Hernia Center, 3Department of Surgery, Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center, Greenville, South Carolina, USA Correspondence: Dr James L Fowler, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, 701 Grove Road, Greenville, South Carolina 29605, USA. Telephone 864-455-7886, fax 864-455-1320, e-mail jfowler@...

introduction: it is well know that fetal distress is one of the important causes of fetus perinatal morbidity and mortality. in this study, we sought to evaluate the association between umbilical coiling index and fetal distress.material and method:this was a case- control study conducted on 90 term pregnant women. study group had fetal distress (abnormal fetal heart rate, meconium staining, ap...