Chronic Pain as a Complication in Open Inguinal Hernia Repair: A Retrospective Study of Consenting Practice in a Single Centre
Inguinal hernia repair is one of the most commonly performed procedures in general surgery in the United Kingdom. Chronic pain as a long-term postoperative complication of this procedure has been extensively documented in the literature. However, this complication is often undisclosed during the consenting process.
More than one surgery is common for hernia patients
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.
Different Types of Hernia in Men
A hernia may be one of the most misunderstood medical conditions among laymen, who often tend to think of it as more complex than it is.
New screening tool IDs 95% of stage 1 pancreatic cancer
A novel screening platform has flagged more than 95% of stage 1 cancers, according to a pilot study published in Nature Communications Medicine. If validated by future studies, the approach offers a new way to detect the third-leading cause of U.S. cancer deaths in 2020.
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