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HerniaTalk **LIVE** Q&A: What’s More Important: Surgeon or Technique?
HerniaTalk LIVE is a weekly Q&A hosted by Dr Shirin Towfigh, hernia surgeon expert at the Beverly Hills Hernia Center, with invited special Guests to answer your hernia-related questions.
Topic: What’s More Important: Surgeon or Technique?
Join us this Tuesday 08/15/2023, at 4:30 pm Pacific time (GMT -7) as a Facebook Live (@Dr.Towfigh). You can also register to join via Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vyt7z4JxRE6rzmmdSj2a0Q
You can watch archived episodes of HerniaTalk LIVE on http://www.YouTube.com/@herniadoc
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Yes. All professional athletes I’ve operated on so far have had laparoscopic inguinal hernia repairs with mesh.
For their umbilical hernias, all but one was non-mesh. These were all small hernias.
Biologic or absorbable meshes are improving. Almost all of the newer ones have clinical trials showing okay results.
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Nice video! @drtowfigh I was wondering, you mentioned you operated on professional basketball players: can I ask if you used mesh for some of those cases?
You also mentioned biological meshes for those patients allergic to synthetic meshes: are the bio meshes getting better? Was there a conclusive study on the recurrence rate for those?
Thanks again!
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Discussed this week!
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That is an excellent question by John concerning the importance of knowing the hernia location beforehand and one that I hope Dr Towfigh will cover in her talk. Some surgeons will say it doesn’t matter because the operation would be the same regardless, but I don’t think all surgeons agree. Perhaps the way the cremaster is handled would be different with some, depending on direct vs indirect?
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Is knowing if I have a direct or indirect inguinal hernia important in selecting a surgeon or technique?
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Is an ultrasound identified inguinal hernia with a finding of “no definite reducibility” a cause for concern, or simply an indication that it was not clear on the ultrasound if the hernia could be reduced?
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