Researchers have found in a new study that emergency surgery, patient comorbidities, and early wound complications were identified as major independent predictors of incisional hernia ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. When it comes to hernia repair, patients today have more ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: For many years, I have had a visible abdominal hernia that is above and to the right of my belly button. My ...

Dear Dr. Roach: For many years, I have had a visible abdominal hernia that is above and to the right of my belly button. My ...

Hernias can develop in any part of the abdomen, but the groin, navel or the site of a previous surgery are the most frequent locations. Symptoms include a bulge, mild pain or pressure and numbness, ...

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A physician recently diagnosed me with an inguinal hernia. I’ve had it for about eight months on my left side. I do wear a support belt most of the time. I’m a 71-year-old man in good health, and I ...

Original Medicare (parts A and B) and some Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans will cover medically necessary hernia surgery. Part A will cover the surgery when done in a hospital, whereas Part B will ...

A stoma hernia, or parastomal hernia, may develop following an ileostomy. This happens when part of the intestine protrudes through a weakness in the abdominal wall around the stoma. Surgery can help ...