• Suture only procedure?

  Posted by Alephy on January 6, 2020 at 3:04 pm

  Hi All,

  I have been diagnosed an inguinal hernia (on the right) 3 weeks ago, confirmed by an ultrasound, and will have a CT scan and discussion with a surgeon next Month (they seem to do mostly TEP from the website). I did have an umbilical hernia 16 years ago which was treated with just sutures as small and just fat poking out (this is what the surgeon said).
  As a question to you, would suture only be an option i.e. no mesh and no wall reconstruction? I believe this is often the procedure with children, and while I am aware of the higher recurrence and longer rehab I am thinking it might still work out for me (49 years old, fit and slim)
  Is this not much discussed as rarely applicable? Are surgeons NOT willing to go off the path these days?
  As another question, is the equivalent of the FDA in Europe also being doing a poor job at certifying meshes? If you had to go for a mesh, which one would you go for based on your reading? It seems to me from what I have read that there is no long term follow up of any of them, other than small ones from the surgeons themselves who normally just look at the operating procedure and not so much the quality of the meshes themselves?

  BTW I have read somewhere that inguinal hernias are NOT due to physical straining and that their cause is not fully understood yet: is this true?

  Thanks a lot!

  Cheers.

  Alex

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