A Case of Successful Hernia Repair for Giant Midline Incisional Hernia After Abdomino-Perineal Resection of Rectum

Repair of incisional hernia after median sternotomy.

About 19 000 cardiac surgical procedures are carried out annually in the United Kingdom, 4000 being for congenital defects (UK Cardiac Surgical Register: Society of Thoracic and Cardiovacular Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, 1983). Most of these procedures use the median sternotomy incision for access to the heart and great vessels. Epigastric incisional hernias may occur as a complicatio...

Laparoscopic Incisional Hernia Repair

An incisional hernia (Fig 1.) is defined as any abdominal wall gap with or without a bulge in the area of a postoperative scar perceptible or palpable by clinical examination or imaging [1]. Incisional hernia is a common long-term complication following abdominal surgery and is estimated to occur in 11-23% [2, 3]. Risk factors for incisional hernia are male gender, body mass index, cancer, and ...

Surgical Repair of Giant Type IV Hiatal Hernia

In this case report, we described a 74-year-old female patient with major complaint of respiratory problemsdyspnea after meal. Chest X-ray of the patient revealed a  gianttype IV hiatal hernia. Preoperative evaluations of the patient included esophagoscopy, esophageal manometry, barium swallow, and CT-scan. Repair of the hernia was performed using a dual mesh on the diaphragm and partial anteri...

Perineal Hernia Repair

Laparoscopic repair of incisional hernia.

A 75-year-old man developed an incisional hernia over the upper abdomen following a wedge resection of a gastric stromal tumour in 1996. This is the first published report of a successful repair of an incisional hernia via a laparoscopic intraperitoneal on-lay technique using GORE-TEX DualMesh material in Hong Kong. Compared with conventional open repair of incisional hernia, long incisions and...