Introduction Worldwide, more than 20 million patients undergo groin hernia repair annually.
The many different approaches, treatment indications and a significant array of techniques …

Fabric rubber composites have attracted great interests among researchers because of their
high specific strength and specific modulus. Developing accurate constitutive models is still …

Mismatch of mechanical properties between highly deformable biomedical materials and
adjacent native tissue might lead to short and long term health impairment. The capability of …

Surgical implants are commonly used in abdominal wall surgery for hernia repair. Many
different prostheses are currently offered to surgeons, comprising permanent synthetic …

Textile fabrics have unique mechanical properties, which make them ideal candidates for
many engineering and medical applications: They are initially flexible, nonlinearly stiffening …

Background There is an urgent need to develop better materials to provide anatomical
support to the pelvic floor without compromising its function. Objective Our aim was to …

Intraperitoneal adhesions (IAs) are a major complication arising from abdominal repair
surgeries, including hernia repair procedures. Herein, we fabricated a composite mesh …

Mesh implantation for hernia repair is one of the common surgical techniques. The goal of
this review is to highlight the basic requirements of mesh in order to select the most …

This work reports the second part of a review on synthetic surgical meshes used for
abdominal hernia repair. While material and structural characteristics, together with mesh …

Purpose Electrospun meshes may be considered as substitutes to textile polypropylene
implants. We compared the host response and biomechanical properties of the rat …