Treatment The way to repair an inguinal hernia is usually with a surgical procedure. In adults with small hernias that don’t cause symptoms, treatment may only be to watch it. Adults with symptoms and ...

The morbidity of open incisional hernia repair is more than 20% involving recurrence and mesh infection. Laparoscopic surgery tends to be safe and is associated with less infections and shorter ...

Background: Annually approximately 100.000 patients undergo a laparotomy in the Netherlands. About 15,000 of these patients will develop an incisional hernia. Both open and laparoscopic surgical ...

The hierarchical organization of protein-based fibrillar materials is tissue specific and plays an important role in organ function. Collagen, the most abundant extracellular matrix (ECM) protein, ...

Chemical 'staples' help collagen resist unraveling and repair itself after being heated by Erin Brown-John, Simon Fraser University edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

The use of synthetic surgical meshes for abdominal hernia repair presents numerous challenges due to insufficient mechanical strength, nonabsorbability, and implant rigidity that leads to ...

Cardiac tissue engineering could be useful for replacement and/or repair of diseased or malformed cardiac tissue. The creation of functional, biocompatible contractile tissues, however, remains ...