Thanks for sharing that! I suppose I should have been more specific (as both Dr. Kang and Dr. Brown are) about using “defect-specific” repairs; they are talking about direct vs. indirect (and Dr. Brown also mentions femoral). It appears that Dr. Desarda’s answer is speaking mostly to direct hernias of different shapes, sizes and locations, based on his answer.

His answer doesn’t appear to address indirect hernias in as specific a way as Drs. Kang or Brown (Dr. Kang has his own repair; Dr. Brown referees the Marcy repair). As those doctors explain it (or at least as I understand it), it is an entirely different type of defect, and even if a reinforcement repair like Desarda would patch it up, it still leaves the fundamental problem unsolved.