Of 34,267 men aged 22 to 61 years who were listed in the Swedish Hernia Register (SHR) as recipients of unilateral or bilateral surgery between 1992 and 2007, with and without mesh, 233 (0.7% ...

Peter H. Gott, M.D. DEAR DR. GOTT: Seven years ago, I had bilateral inguinal-hernia repair done by laparoscopy. Before the surgery, I had some pain on the right side of my groin, but there was no ...

That's bad news right there. In my case, it was a bilateral inguinal hernia. Two for the price of one. Surgery was definitely in my future.

JAMA Surgery Source Reference: Almquist M "Urinary catheters for inguinal hernia repair -- the challenges of deimplementation of routine procedures" JAMA Surg 2022; DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2022.2203.

Does herniorrhaphy impair male fertility? In a paper recently published in Annals of Surgery, [1] the authors studied fertility outcomes in 32,621 Danish male inguinal hernia patients operated ...

Figure 1: Computed tomography scans of the abdomen and pelvis of a 92-year-old man with acute kidney injury. (A) Sagittal view shows most of the bladder herniating through a left inguinal hernia ...