Background: Many surgeons utilize biologic mesh for elective complex ventral hernia repair
(VHR; large hernias, contaminated fields, or patients with comorbid conditions). However, no …

Introduction Abdominal wall herniation (AWH) is an increasing problem for patients,
surgeons, and healthcare providers. Surgical-site specific outcomes, such as infection …

Millions of abdominal wall repair procedures are performed each year for primary and
incisional hernias both in the European Union and in the United States with extremely high …

Surgical site infection (SSI) continues to be a common complication of surgery. The real
benefit of using topical antibiotics for the prevention of SSI in abdominal hernia repair …

Introduction Surgeons use several quality-of-life instruments to track outcomes following
abdominal wall reconstruction (AWR); however, there is no universally agreed upon …

Purpose Ventral hernia repair (VHR) can be augmented with biosynthetic poly-4-
hydroxybutryate mesh (P4HB). Long-term outcomes, including quality of life outcomes, after …

Purpose Negative pressure wound therapy on closed incisions (iNPWT) is a wound
dressing system developed to promote wound healing and avoid complications after …

Background Although the most durable method for ventral hernia repairs involves using
mesh, whether to use biologic mesh versus synthetic mesh remains controversial. This study …

Background An increasing body of information suggests that preoperative physical activity
level can impact postoperative outcomes. We sought to investigate this relationship in …

Introduction Although there are many patient-reported outcome measures used for ventral
hernia (VH), disease-specific instruments, such as the Hernia-related Quality-of-Life (QoL) …