Everything about Ventral Hernias
Every year, thousands of patients suffer from incisional (ventral) hernia. Most of these ventral hernias need hernial repair surgery. Therefore, check out some most frequently asked questions about incisional hernia.
Defining Ventral Hernia
Hernia:
A hernia is a condition, which occurs when an organ begins to push or protrude through the wall of a muscle surrounding it.
Ventral Hernia:
Ventral hernia, commonly called incisional hernia, occurs when a part of an abdominal organ such as the bowel or the intestine erupts through a weak area of the patient’s abdominal wall where an older surgical scar is located.
Postoperative scar tissue can thin or stretch out after surgery causing weak spots in the abdomen. Thereafter, scar tissues can thin or stretch out because of straining during recurrent or intense coughing, pregnancy, and strenuous physical activity like weightlifting, bowel movements, weight gain or vomiting. These factors make the abdominal wall more vulnerable to strain and hernia.
Following individuals are at an increased risk of ventral hernia:
Obese and pregnant women are at a higher risk
Patients who have undergone other abdominal previously are also at an increased risk.
Ventral Hernia Symptoms:
If you suspect that, you are suffering from ventral hernia then consult a doctor who will diagnose it. Here are some of the symptoms associated with ventral hernia:
Tenderness or discomfort while lifting heavy objects
Bulges in the abdominal area, some of which may disappear when laying down
Abdominal pain
Nausea and vomiting
Constipation
Coughing or putting stress on other parts of the body
If you suspect that you are suffering from ventral hernia then immediately, contact your health care professional or doctor. Your doctor will examine you properly and will ask you to cough while pressing your abdominal area to find the potential hernia.
Treating Ventral Hernia
Medical health care professionals treat some of the ventral hernias with a truss, a belt that keeps the hernia from pushing and bulging through the abdominal wall. However, surgery is one of the most common procedures for treating ventral hernia. Herniorrhaphy is a procedure that repairs the abdominal wall after putting the part of organ back into its actual position.
With the advancement in the medical technology, laparoscopic procedures are becoming are more common. Doctors perform this type of surgery with a special device allowing the surgeon to see inside the abdomen while performing surgery. This procedure requires extremely tiny incisions and less recovery time than other conventional surgical procedures.
Sometimes, health care professionals or surgeons insert a mesh hernia patch like the Bard Composix Kugel Mesh Patch, to support the area of incisional or ventral hernia. Surgeons made a small incision; fold, and place the mesh patch behind the area of hernia. This patch then opens up due to the “memory recoil ring” technology. Due to this technology, it lays flat in the proper area and reinforces the hernia.
About Bard Kugel Mesh Patch recall
Recently, in the year 2005, the Food and Drug Administration announced a recall on some other larger sizes of the Bard Composix Kugel Mesh Patch, due to the failures in the “memory coil rings” causing the patch to create abnormal organ passageways or burst the bowel. Davol, manufacturers and distributors of the patches, announced a voluntary recall of the Composix patches in the past and may do it again. It faces many legal actions and lawsuits in relation to the complications resulting from the failed hernia patches.
Quality Advice
If you are, someone affected by the failure of hernia patch or if you want to learn more about hernia patch voluntary withdrawal then contact an experienced medical device attorney. Your hernia patch lawyer will help you through out the case and will help you with your claim against Bard Composix Kugel Mesh Patch in relation to the defective hernia patches. You may get some monetary compensation for the medical; expenses, lost wages and other costs.