Abstract Introduction Incisional Hernia (IH) is a common complication of abdominal surgery. IH associated with significant morbidity to patients, and costs the NHS. With no singular intervention demonstrated bring rate below 12%, focus now on pre-operative risk-prediction. High-risk patients may benefit from prophylactic mesh placement during their index operation, however controversy surroundi...

AIM The assessment of the postoperative outcome following laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy using anterior and posterior mesh. MATERIAL AND METHODS In the study were included one hundred and ten women (mean age 62 years with range from 34 to 78) who had laparoscopic sarcoplexy the period 2001-2005. They were contacted and completed postal questionnaires more than one year after surgery and had a fo...

INTRODUCTION Integrating mental healthcare into primary care can reduce the global burden of mental disorders. Yet data on the effective implementation of real-world task-shared mental health programmes are limited. In 2012, the Rwandan Ministry of Health and the international healthcare organisation Partners in Health collaboratively adapted the Mentoring and Enhanced Supervision at Health Cen...

Introduction Pelvic organ prolapse can significantly reduce quality of life of affected women, with many cases requiring corrective surgery. The rate of recurrence is relatively high after conventional prolapse surgery. In recent years, alloplastic meshes have increasingly been implanted to stabilize the pelvic floor, which has led to considerable improvement of anatomical results. But the pote...