Incisional Hernia [Paperback]

Incisional hernia surgery has witnessed important advances over recent years, not only as far as the pathophysiological and etiopathogenetic aspects are concerned, but also from a technical point of view. This book provides an update on incisional hernia surgical techniques. It includes chapters on synthetic prostheses, biomaterials and robotics. Surgeons, surgical residents, and medical students will find the information in this volume very useful in their daily practice.

Incisional hernia surgery has witnessed an important progress over the last years, not only as far as the pathophysiological and etiopathogenetic aspects are concerned, but also from a technical point of view.

Thanks to the recent findings on genetical disorders of the collagen, incisional hernia is today considered a true disease of the abdominal wall . Surgeons need to be aware of all the different repairing techniques, in order to make an elective choice and to keep side effects and recidives under control. Today, on the basis of the most recent research on synthesis of collagen and collagenolysis, the treatment of the incisional hernia should not disregard the use of synthetic prostheses and of biomaterials, both in the routinal surgical practice and in the most complex clinical cases.

Surgeons, surgical residents, and medical students will find this volume very useful in their daily practice.

General Part.- The Historical Evolution of the Treatment of Incisional Hernia.- The Anatomical Structures of Abdominal-Wall Continence.- Epidemiology.- Abdominal Compartment Syndrome: Clinical and Physiopathologic Implications in Giant Ventral Hernias.- Respiratory Physiopathology in Surgical Repair of Large Abdominal Hernias.- Notes Concerning Current Pathophysiological Aspects of Incisional Hernia.- Diagnostic Imaging of Incisional Hernia.- Special Part.- Anaesthesiological Aspects in the Abdominal-Wall Surgery.- Pathologies Aslcž