Greg Vigna, MD 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 ...

From March 2017 to April 2019, Krpata and colleagues randomized 350 patients who were undergoing open ventral hernia repair 1:1 to either the medium-weight (n=177) or heavy-weight mesh (n=173).

AUSTIN, Texas — More than one million hernia surgeries are performed in the U.S. every year. The majority of those surgeries involve plastic mesh. Last month, the Food and Drug Administration ...

April 14, 2005 --; Herniorrhaphy with polypropylene mesh may cause inguinal vasal obstruction (IVO) with resultant infertility, according to the results of a case series published in the April ...

“In the 1950s, Dr. Francis C. Usher at Baylor’s Department of Surgery developed the first polypropylene mesh for hernia repair. We have developed a next-generation mesh that not only provides ...

The bellwether case is Milanesi et al v. C.R. Bard Inc et al, No. 2:18-cv-01320, and the MDL is In re: Davol Inc/C.R. Bard Inc Polypropylene Hernia Mesh Products Liability Litigation, No. 2:18-md ...

AUSTIN, Texas — More than one million hernia surgeries are performed in the U.S. every year. The majority of those surgeries involve plastic mesh. Last month, the Food and Drug Administration ...