Using data from 102,191 patients, collected by the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, the authors of a paper published in Surgery [1] studied the relationship ...

Patient-reported outcomes have become a critical part of improving surgical care because of their ability to capture patient experiences, such as quality of life and satisfaction, that can help inform ...

A 47-year-old woman from Kolkata underwent surgery to repair a ventral hernia which is an opening in the abdominal wall ...

Undergoing laparoscopic repair of primary ventral hernias (PVHs) reduced the likelihood that patients would experience surgical site infection by 85%, but patients spent an additional day in the ...

"Despite evidence for its benefit in certain surgical procedures such as prostate surgery, our data adds to the large body of work demonstrating no substantial clinical benefit when using the robot ...

A hernia occurs when part of an internal organ or tissue pushes through a weak spot or opening in the muscle or tissue that ...

Abbvie (ABBV) announced an update on their ongoing clinical study. AbbVie (ABBV) is running a Phase 2 study called “A Phase 2 Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Adaptive, Dose-Escalation Study to ...

While offering similar clinical benefits at 1 year, a medium-weight polypropylene mesh was no better for pain control than a heavy-weight mesh in patients who underwent open retromuscular ventral ...

Cutting edge technology may come with downsides. For an abdominal wall hernia repair, also known as a ventral hernia repair, the most common surgical approaches have been laparoscopic and open ...