March 1 (UPI) --About one in six people in the United States who undergo hernia repair surgery need to have the procedure again within 10 years due to recurrence, a study published Tuesday by JAMA ...

About one in six patients undergoing hernia repair require reoperation within 10 years, according to a new research letter published March 1 in JAMA. Patients who underwent minimally invasive hernia ...

Tension-free crural repair with nonabsorbable mesh did not reduce the incidence of hiatal hernia recurrence in patients undergoing antireflux surgery for treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease ...

Four million abdominal operations are performed in the United States each year, some of which may require the need for hernia repair. More than 400,000 ventral hernia repair operations are performed ...

Machine learning (ML) models developed by surgeons at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston have shown a high level of accuracy in predicting which types of patients are most ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Surgical Technology International has released a publication led by Dr. Bruce Ramshaw, Past President of the Americas Hernia Society and Co-Founder of CQInsights; and Dr.

Not fixating the mesh in open retromuscular ventral hernia repair (RVHR) was noninferior to fixation, a single-center clinical trial found. Hernia recurrence rates at 1 year were similar between the ...

About one in six older Americans who'd undergone an operation to repair a hernia had repeat hernia surgery less than 10 years later, Michigan Medicine research found. These rates have barely improved ...

For an abdominal wall hernia repair, also known as a ventral hernia repair, the most common surgical approaches have been laparoscopic and open techniques. But a new approach for repairing hernias has ...