As safer alternatives for hernia mesh materials come to market, we expect rates of chronic pain from chronic inflammation to polypropylene and the resulting neuropathic pain to substantially decrease.

Up to 12% of patients may develop chronic pain after inguinal hernia mesh repair—often linked to synthetic mesh and sometimes requiring revision surgery Phasix mesh is the elusive, safer alternative ...

April 6, 2011 (San Antonio, Texas) — Surgeons at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, have devised a method to project a "laser roadmap" intraabdominally to visually guide surgeons in ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The national law firm of Baron & Budd is now accepting lawsuits on behalf of patients who suffered health problems after being implanted with a hernia mesh as part of a ...

Recurrent hernias can be treated by laparoscopy without the need for mesh removal. However, shrinkage of the mesh following recurrence affects most of the patients, and leaving a partially floating ...