Patients often want to know what they did ‘wrong’ to have developed a hernia. The incidence of developing a primary inguinal hernia in a male is from about 27% – 42% and 3%-5.8% in women. The data shows that patients have no significant impact on their risk for developing a hernia. In other words, patients […]
How do we Treat Recurrent Inguinal Hernias?
Patients who have a hernia repair have about a 1-2% chance of the hernia coming back, or ‘recurring’. Recurrent hernias can pose a more difficult challenge since there has already been one surgery in the area, creating scar tissue. Often the first surgeon used a mesh so repeating the surgery a second time creates difficulty […]
4th time’s the charm
We had a wonderfully pleasant 73 year old woman who came to us recently after 3 previous failed attempts at fixing her hernia. She had gallbladder surgery back 20 years ago and developed a hernia at one of her incisions. This was repaired 3 times and each time the surgery failed. We hope that the […]
