You've seen the commercials and heard the negative news about surgical mesh – and you're probably wondering if it's safe. You're not alone. Many people who need hernia repair have this concern. Dr.

The new surgical meshes can be used in procedures like hernia repair are an all-too common source of surgical complications like infection and non-healing wounds, many of which develop more than a ...

Chronic pain is a common and feared complication of ventral hernia repair. Pain affects up to 39% of the estimated 348,000 Americans who annually undergo ventral hernia repair. Pain may contribute to ...

Among patients undergoing incisional hernia repair, the use of mesh to reinforce the repair was associated with a lower risk of hernia recurrence over 5 years compared with when mesh was not used, ...

Researchers have found in a new study that biological mesh offered no pain-reduction benefits and showed higher recurrence ...

(Reuters Health) - Synthetic mesh is more effective for correcting vaginal prolapse than using a woman's own tissue, but the overall benefit is small, according to a fresh look at some past research.

At a mean follow-up of 13 years among 103 patients, the verified radiologic hiatal hernia recurrence rates were 38% in the mesh reinforcement group compared with 31% in the group who received crural ...

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