Complications - Open incisional hernia repair with retromuscular mesh augmentation

  1. Intraoperative complications

    Injury to hernia sac content

    • e.g., bowel
    • Treatment: Immediate suture
    • Prevention: Careful dissection in layers, perhaps even starting dissection in an area without defect and then continuing from there to expose the fascial defect and hernia sac content.

    Vascular injury

    • particularly the epigastric vessels and their branches at the lateral margin of the rectus sheath
    • Treatment: Immediate suture/hemostasis

    Failed closure of the anterior rectus sheath

    • Treatment: Ramirez procedure with separation of components or possibly bridging technique
Postoperative complications

Depending on the extent of the hernia repair the following complications are possible:Intestinal pa

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