A study, published in JAMA Surgery, identified the factors that lead to umbilical hernia recurrence, a common general surgery procedure. Researchers studied 332 military veteran patients who underwent ...

Agostino Cervone, MD, president of medical staff and director of General Robotic Surgery at Northwell Health’s Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead, N.Y., recently performed the first umbilical ...

The Iskandar Complex Hernia Center has recently published a video article for other physicians about robotic subcutaneous-only repair (SCOLA) for umbilical hernia with diastasis recti. This is a ...

I had surgery for an umbilical hernia on Tuesday afternoon. I should have taken a before picture, which would have shown an innie belly button with the top "collapsed."<BR><BR>I ended up spending ...

John Syng Dorsey [1] once stated: The large proportion of mankind who are afflicted with this complaint; -- the great variety of forms in which it appears; -- the fatality which results from its ...

Most people won’t experience any negative long-term effects after hernia repair surgery. In fact, the surgery may well improve any hernia-related pain or dysfunction that you were experiencing before.

An inguinal hernia is a condition in which part of the intestine bulges through a hole in the abdominal wall of the groin. There are two types of inguinal hernias: Indirect inguinal hernias — usually ...

CPT 49496 (Repair, initial inguinal hernia, full term infant younger than age 6 months, or preterm infant older than 50 weeks postconception age and younger than age 6 months at the time of surgery, ...