The size of the hernia did not affect the rate of recurrence. Among patients with midline abdominal incisional hernias, mesh repair is superior to suture repair with regard to the recurrence of ...

For example, in a study comparing suture repair of incisional hernia to mesh repair ... we demonstrate that components separation and midline reinforcement with a variety of graft materials ...

An incisional hernia can occur after you’ve had surgery on your abdomen. The condition is most likely to occur when a person has a midline abdominal incision. With this type of incision ...

Epigastric hernia. These are above the belly button and below the breast bone. They're almost always in the midline. Incisional hernia. These hernias appear where the abdominal wall is weakened by ...

Surgical intervention is the sole treatment for an incisional hernia after a C-section. Research shows that females with a midline (up and down) incision are more likely to have a hernia after ...

Your risk for incisional hernias increases if you ... Researchers also found that slightly more women with hernias had midline (up and down) incisions. But the transverse (side to side) incision ...

Background: Development of incisional hernia after open abdominal surgery ... 157 out of 599 patients were eligible for analysis (85 (54%) midline, 54 (35%) transverse incisions).

Some of the common hernia locations are at the lower chest through the diaphragm, the groin area through the lower abdominal wall, the front midline ... and incisional hernias also exist.

Most of the incisions were midline vertical (13/68.4%). Twelve (63.1%) of the patients had previous incisional hernia repair (PIHR group); the mean number of previous incisional hernia repair was 1.4.

Whether a midline or transverse incision is used in abdominal surgery depends mainly on the disease, anatomy and potential effects on wound healing, pain and postoperative complications.