INTRODUCTION The incidence of hernias is increased in patients with alcoholic liver disease with ascites. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of an acute rise in intra-abdominal pressure from straining for stool as the cause of a ruptured umbilical hernia. CASE PRESENTATION An 81-year-old Caucasian man with a history of alcoholic liver disease presented to our emergency dep...

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...

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@...

Umbilical hernias in calves commonly present to veterinary clinics, which are normally secondary to failure of the normal closure of the umbilical ring, and which result in the protrusion of abdominal contents into the overlying subcutis. The aim of this study was to compare the suitability of commonly-used herniorrhaphies for the treatment of reducible umbilical hernia in calves. Thirty-four c...

Cherbanyk F, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2016-219039 Description A 75-year-old alcoholic male patient with severe malnutrition was admitted to the hospital with the diagnosis of pneumonia. The finding of a symptomatic umbilical hernia on patient examination mandated a surgical consultation with the question of an operative hernia repair. Clinically, the abdomen was distended with ...

background some sonographic positions for detection of abdominal wall hernias needed .in this paper we described the sonographic technique of abdominal wall hernia. methods from june 2013 to july 2016, three hundred seventy four patients referred in our department for evaluation of abdominal wall hernia (median age, 38 years; range 2 - 86 years). one hundred and ninety patients had abdominal he...