Direct inguinal hernia. This type of hernia is caused by weakening of your abdominal muscles over time and is more likely to be seen in adults. Direct inguinal hernias occur only in men. Symptoms The ...

During the 24-month follow-up with no patients lost, no hernia recurrence was identified in any of the three groups, including the NFG, although our study has a limited casuistic the results were ...

IN 1889, Edward Bassini, of Italy, in prefacing his report on 251 cases of inguinal hernia, said: "After all that has been written with such feverish diligence up to the present time concerning the ...

These patients were distributed into 2 groups: 36 with indirect inguinal hernia (IIH) and 21 with direct inguinal hernia (DIH). During surgery, 1 fragment of 0.5 cm of intact TF from the posterior ...

Skin was used for the repair of inguinal hernias by Hawley as early as 1889. Perhaps the first to use skin without epidermis as graft to repair hernias were Loewe (1913) and Rehn (1914). Some of ...

Like indirect hernias, direct hernias are also more common in people with testicles. In fact, 27% of people with testicles will develop an inguinal hernia in their lifetime, while only 3% of people ...

Direct hernias are acquired rather than congenital and usually occur in people aged 25 or older. This hernia occurs due to degeneration and fatty changes in the inguinal floor or posterior wall in ...

All abdominal wall hernias are either congenital or develop later from a weak point. Examples of hernias that are created from a weak point existing since birth are groin hernia (inguinal hernia), ...

Inguinal hernias can be indirect or direct, incarcerated, or strangulated. Indirect inguinal hernia: An indirect inguinal hernia is the most common type. It often occurs in premature births, before ...

Neeraj Chopra reportedly suffers from inguinal hernia – the condition that affected his performance in the Paris 2024 Olympics. Neeraj bagged the silver medal this year with the javelin throw of ...

Inguinal hernias, which are subtypes of groin hernias, can be direct or indirect, with the latter being the most common type in both men and women. 1 Very rarely, retroperitoneal structures, such as ...