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Dr Towfigh talked a bit about her thinking re tissue repairs for women in her Hernia Talk video with Dr Andreas Koch. They had similar perspectives on this, if I remember correctly.

The whole talk’s worth a watch for anyone who hasn’t seen it.

I agree Pinto, it can be really frustrating. It times out pretty quickly. I write my posts separately now and paste them across to avoid it happening.

It doesn’t seem to like multiple web links either.

There are currently 110 reviews on the UK Trustpilot website for Biohernia regarding Dr Andreas Koch’s and Dr Martin Wiese’s hernia repairs with patients in Europe – https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/biohernia.com?sort=recency

Two of the more recent reviews, one by a guy in GB on 10th February and the one just above that by a guy in the Net…[Read more]

There are currently 110 reviews on the UK Trustpilot website for Biohernia regarding Dr Andreas Koch’s and Dr Martin Wiese’s hernia repairs with patients in Europe – https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/biohernia.com?sort=recency

Two of the more recent reviews, one by a guy in GB on 10th February and the one just above that by a guy in the Net…[Read more]

Hi Dean,

Are you visiting Seoul to see Dr Kang?

As William said, if you are, please feedback on here about your experience.

For South Korea, the NHS Fit For Travel website says to confirm primary vaccination courses and boosters are up to date as recommended for life in Britain and to consider Hepatitis A; Hepatitis B; Rabies; Tetanus;…[Read more]

With Dr Towfigh having talked about not rating the Desarda repair and Dr Kang seemingly not rating it either, it would be really interesting to hear what your opinions are @drtowfigh and @drkang regarding a couple of the studies published that appear to evidence that the Desarda repair is worth considering for low rates of recurrence and chronic…[Read more]

From my research, I understand that Dr Light in the UK performs the Desarda repair under local anaesthetic without sedation.

I’ve not heard of any issues with this, though I’ve not managed to find reviews.

Prof Sheen offers a modified Shouldice, but rarely to people over 30. He’s a lap mesh specialist.

I’ve had a quick look at the video and it’s not Prof Sheen. I didn’t watch enough to ascertain if it was in the UK or not.

No offence taken Good intentions and apologies that I forgot to post the link you had to search for!

I tend to be very sceptical about supplements and there’s no replacing a healthy diet IMO.

As you say, if trials were to evidence successful results, that would certainly be interesting.

If you don’t have any luck with Dr Towfigh’s suggestion of Dr Radu, you can access Dr Koch, Dr Wiese and Dr Muschaweck through Biohernia – https://biohernia.com/.

You could call/send them the details you posted above and see if Biohernia are able to check if any of those three surgeons may be able to help, or recommend other surgeons alt…[Read more]

Hi William,

I’ve previously contacted both Prof Lloyd’s office and Prof Sheen.

My understanding is that Prof Lloyd specialises only in mesh repairs for hernias and his ‘Lloyd release procedure’ for sports hernias. I’m pretty sure this was discussed and rejected as a good procedure during Dr Towfigh’s excellent recent discussion on Hernia Talk…[Read more]

I’d never heard of cord lipoma before.

It would be interesting to hear @drtowfigh’s thoughts on this.

This study states:

‘ A spermatic cord lipoma is found in 20–70% of all inguinal hernia repairs.

Spermatic cord lipoma seems to originate from preperitoneal fatty tissue within the internal spermatic fascia in topographical proximity to the…[Read more]

Hi Dr Towfigh,

Hope all’s good with you.

I’m very interested to see your Hernia Talk Q&A with Dr Ulrike Muschaweck.

I won’t be able to watch live though I’ll definitely watch the recording when you post it on YouTube.

Would it be possible to ask Dr Muschaweck about the following please:

– How she performs the Shouldice repair, includi…[Read more]

Great links to the video and comment Good intentions, thanks.

Here’s a link to the comment – https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journal/shouldice-hospital-comments-on-shouldice-standard-2020-review-of-JkkEjJj2yQ?key=springer

Hi Watchful,

Reassuring that the Shouldice hospital will listen to patient requests for specific surgeons, albeit without promising. I guess you’d have to be politely assertive on arrival that you’d only see whoever you’d enquired about. A longer the list of acceptable surgeons would hopefully raise the odds of getting one.

Thanks for repos…[Read more]

Personally, I’ve found the patient.info site to be a poor resource vs this site, so echoing the points above, credit to @drtowfigh. Please do keep this site going @drtowfigh, it’s such a great resource and hopefully more surgeons with an interest in hernias will join, as I think they too would get a lot out of it that could inform their own practice.