June 24, 2008

Laparoscopic Incisional Ventral Hernia Repair from Univ of Maryland Medical Ctr

Laparoscopic Incisional Ventral Hernia Repair from Univ of Maryland Medical Ctr
slp3D, Inc / OR-Live.com
58 min - Sep 14, 2005

On Sept. 14, 2005, at 4 p.m., webcast viewers watched as Dr. Adrian Park, chief of general surgery at UMMC and professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and his colleague, Dr. Scott Roth, director of surgical endoscopy at UMMC and assistant professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, performed a laparoscopic incisional/ventral hernia repair a procedure that Dr. Park help pioneer.

At the University of Maryland, most hernias are repaired laparoscopically rather than as an open procedure the standard treatment at many other institutions. During a laparoscopic repair, surgeons mend the tear in the abdominal wall using special instruments, small incisions, and a mesh patch. They begin by making a small incision in the abdominal wall in a location chosen to minimize the risk of running into organs or scar tissue from previous operations. Then a laparoscope (a tiny telescope with a television camera attached) is inserted through a small hollow tube, allowing the surgeon to view the inside of the hernia on a television monitor.

Other small incisions will be made for placement of other instruments to remove any scar tissue, and to insert a surgical mesh into the abdomen. This mesh is fixed under the hernia defect to the strong tissues of the abdominal wall to prevent the hernia from recurring.

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