Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Incisional & Ventral hernia



Incisional hernias

This  is  a  diffuse hernia through a poorly healed  scar  of  an
earlier  incision.  The factors responsible for the poor  healing
are  post-operative haematoma and sepsis, bad closure  technique,
drains  in  wound, the age of patient, obesity and  diabetes  can
also.

The  treatment  is surgical repair using either  layer  by  layer
closure  or keel repair. In some cases a mesh graft needs  to  be
used  to strengthen the repair or bridge a large tissue loss  gap
in abdominal wall.

Ventral Hernia
These are usually hernias in old incision wounds
Incision is over the old wound and excision of the old scar.
Wide dissection around the bulge will expose the rectus sheath on both side of the bulge
Relaxing incision on rectus sheath will permit easy approximation of edges of sheath
It is also possible to reinforce sheath by interposing a cut out of synthetic marlex mesh.
Close the wound

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