The care related to hernia surgery may vary depending on the procedure, the surgical setting, and any complications that develop. This article describes hernias and hernia surgery and looks at ...

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 ...

Anne Rhodes is back to doing what she loves after being treated for a hernia at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital. Frankly, a hernia wasn't even on her radar. "I had a lot of ...

Until Pope Pius XII fell ill in 1954, few people had ever heard of hiatal hernia and fewer knew what it was, although surprisingly many must have suffered from it. Nowadays the diagnosis is being made ...

A paraesophageal hernia is a type of hiatal hernia where a significant portion of the stomach (and possibly other organs) bulges through a natural opening in the diaphragm and into the chest cavity.

As she looked at herself in the mirror, Landolus Black, 74, could see that her stomach was growing. “I looked five to six months pregnant,” Black recalls. Half a dozen hernia repair surgeries, with ...

As a general surgeon, Dr. Gerardo Garcia of St. Luke’s Monroe Campus is often called on to repair hernias and remove gallbladders. Most of the time, these days, he performs these surgical procedures ...