An 89-year-old female presented with typical symptoms of acute diverticulitis. Abdominal CT revealed an abdominal wall hernia with signs of acute incarceration in the lateral part of the transverse abdominis muscle and rupture of the transversalis fascia. The findings were confirmed intraoperatively. The present case underlines the diagnostic importance of abdominal CT, especially in patients w...

UNLABELLED Abdominal aortic aneurysms and abdominal hernias become an important health problems of our times. Abdominal aortic aneurysm and its rupture is one of the most dangerous fact in vascular surgery. There are some theories pointing to a multifactoral genesis of these kinds of diseases, all of them assume the attenuation of abdominal fascia and abdominal aortic wall. The density and cont...

Intestinal obstruction after liver transplant is a rare complication, with diverse clinical manifestations. Intestinal adhesion is the most common cause. However, internal hernia, abdominal wall hernia, and neoplasm are also reported. Intussusception is another rare cause of intestinal obstruction, which has been reported primarily in pediatric patients. Herein, we report a case of intestinal o...

Incisional hernias of the abdominal wall occur in up to 11% of all other postoperative patients and in as many as 23% of patients with postoperative wound infections. Trocar site hernias after laparoscopic surgery are reported in up to 6% of patients. Parastomal hernia formation occurs in 28% of ileostomies and 48% of colostomies. Morbidity depends on the location and contents of the hernia, as...

Laparoscopic repair of incisional hernia has been shown safe and efficacious, with low rates of conversion to open, short hospital stay, moderate complication rate, and low recurrence. Using the benefits of open retromuscular, sublay repair, the laparoscopic approach provides adequate mesh overlap and allows for identification of the entire abdominal wall fascia at risk for hernia formation. Fi...

Background About 15 % of patients who have been undergone to a laparotomy may develope abdominal wall hernia and the risk increases with age. In last years the Laparoscopic treatment of ventral hernia (LVHR) is becoming increasingly widespread in surgical community thanks to the good outcomes of this technique [1,2]. The aim of this study was to describe the experience of our surgical centers i...

Title of Document: THE DELIVERY OF IGF-1 FOR SKELETAL MUSCLE REGENERATION WITHIN ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIAS Erin Elizabeth Falco, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Associate Professor, Dr. John P. Fisher, Fischell Department of Bioengineering At an ever increasing pace, synthetic biomaterials are being developed with specific functionalities for tissue engineering applications. These biomater...

A hernia is a disease wherein organs or tissues, like the bowel, bulge through abdominal wall. The etiological, as well precipitating factors for include pressure, pre-existing weakness of muscles, gender, obesity, age, diet, lack regular exercise, and smoking. Swelling, stiffness, discomfort seem to be most prevalent symptoms, particularly while straining, moving, bending down. Open laparoscop...

Surgical treatment of incisional hernia is an actual problem abdominal surgery. Despite the improvement surgical techniques, results cannot be considered satisfactory: recurrence rate continues to high and due failures in reconstruction complex ventral hernia. Although there are many works devoted various aspects patients with hernias, not sufficiently resolved. The this category a difficult ta...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In recent years, 2 modifications of laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) inguinal hernia repair-needlescopic (nTAPP) surgery and single-port (sTAPP) surgery-have greatly improved patient outcomes over traditional approaches. For a comparison of these 2 modifications, we sought to investigate and compare the extent of surgical trauma and postoperative conseq...