The SAGES Manual of Hernia Repair

Brian P. Jacob, MD, FACS Mount Sinai Medical Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA Bruce Ramshaw, MD, FACS Department of General Surgery, Advanced Hernia Solutions, Transformative Care Institute, Daytona Beach, FL, USA

I. Essentials of Inguinal Hernia
1. Establishing a Hernia Program and Follow-up Regimen: A Complex Systems Design for Care and Improvement
Bruce Ramshaw
2. Prosthetic Choice in Open Inguinal Hernia Repair
Lisa C. Pickett
3. Prosthetic Choice in Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair
Emily L. Albright and J. Scott Roth
II. Techniques for Inguinal Hernia Repair
4. Technique: Lichtenstein
David C. Chen and Parviz K. Amid
5. Technique: Plug and Patch
Carl Doerhoff
6. Technique: Laparoscopic TEP
Guy Voeller and Benjamin S. Powell
7. Technique: Laparoscopic TAPP and IPOM
William Cobb, IV
8. Strangulated Inguinal Hernia
Jonathan P. Pearl and E. Matthew Ritter
9. Femoral Hernia
Daniel E. Swartz and Edward L. Felix
III. Outcomes and Complications Following Inguinal Hernia Repair
10. Results of Laparoscopic Repair of Inguinal Hernia
Daniel Marcus
11. Outcomes After Transabdominal Preperitoneal Inguinal Hernia Repair
Nicole Fearing and Kimberly Ponnuru
12. Cord Structure Complications in Inguinal Hernia Surgery
Aaron M. Lipskar and Mark A. Reiner
13. INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS DURING LAPAROSCOPIC HERNIA REPAIR
Davide Lomanto and Rajat Goel
14. Urinary Retention after Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair
David A. McClusky, III
15. Recurrent Inguinal Hernia: The Best Approach
Abe Fingerhut and Mousa Khoursheed
16. Athletic Groin Pain and Sports Hernia
Nathaniel Stoikes and L. Michael Brunt
IV. Current Debates in Inguinal Hernia Repair
17. TAPP vs. TEP
Alfredo M. Carbonell
18. Fixation versus No Fixation in Laparoscopic TEP and TAPP
Viney K. Mathavan and Maurice E. Arregui
19. Laparoscopic vs. Open Repair for the Uncomplicated Unilateral Inguinal Hernia
Pradeep Pallati and Robert J. Fitzgibbons, Jr.
20. Polyester, Polypropylene, ePTFE for Inguinal Hernias: Does it Really Matter?
Dmitry Oleynikov and Matthew Goede
V. Essentials of Ventral and Incisional Hernia Repair
21. Evolution of Incisional and Ventral Hernia Repair
Malini D Sur and L Brian Katz
22. Tissue Ingrowth: The Mesh-Tissue Interface--What Do We Know So Far?
Gregory J. Mancini and A. Mariah Alexander
23. Patient Co-morbidities Complicating a Hernia Repair: The Preoperative Workup and Postoperative Planning
Scott Philipp
24. What Is a Complex Abdominal Wall?
Mickey M. Ott and Jose J. Diaz, Jr.
VI. Techniques for Ventral and Incisional Hernia Repair
25. Synthetic Prosthetic Choices in Ventral Hernia Repair
Sheila A. Grant
26. Biologic Prosthetics: What Are They and How Do They Interact with the Body?
Gina L. Adrales and Elizabeth Honigsberg
27. Open Component Separation for Abdominal Wall Reconstruction
David Earle
28. Endoscopic Component Separation
Michael J. Rosen
29. Technique: Laparoscopic Ventral/Incisional Hernia Repair
Archana Ramaswamy
30. Loss of Abdominal Domain
Victor B. Tsirline, Igor Belyansky, David A. Klima, and B. Todd Heniford
31. Drains, Pain Pumps, and Abdominal Binders
Chris Edwards
VII. Outcomes and Complications Following Ventral and Incisional Hernia Repair
32. Skin Necrosis After Open Component Separation: Prevention and Management
Jignesh V. Unadkat and Dinakar Golla
33. Recurrent Incisional Hernia Repair
John G. Linn and Dean J. Mikami
34. Chronic Mesh Infections
Andrei Churyla and Andrew B. Lederman
35. Adhesions After Lap Ventral: Do They Matter?
Dennis L. Fowler
36. Chronic Pain After Ventral Hernia Repair
Victor B. Tsirline, David A. Klima, Igor Belyansky, and Kent W. Kercher
37. Enterotomy During Hernia Repair
Ross F. Goldberg and C. Daniel Smith
38. CHRONIC SEROMA
Morris Franklin Jr, Dr. Richard Alexander, Gerardo Lozano, and Karla Russek
VIII. Current Debates in Ventral and Incisional Hernia Repair
39. Bridging versus Closing the Defect during Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair
Yuri W. Novitsky
40. Bridging Versus Closing the Defect during Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair: It’s OK to Bridge
Stephen M. Kavic and Adrian Park
41. The Bariatric Patient with a Complex Ventral Hernia
Jenny J. Choi and Alfons Pomp
42. Open versus Endoscopic Component Separation: How to Choose One or the Other
Eduardo Parra-Davila, Juan J. Diaz-Hernandez, and Carlos M. Ortiz-Ortiz
43. Absorbable Fixation Materials: A Critical Appraisal
Kevin El-Hayek and Matthew Kroh
44. Biologic Mesh: When and Why: A Critical Appraisal
Jaime A. Cavallo, Corey R. Deeken, and Brent D. Matthews
IX. Other Hernias
45. Parastomal Hernia Repair: Latest Updates
Chee-Chee H. Stucky and Kristi L. Harold
46. Repair of Paraesophageal Hernia
Steven P. Bowers
47. Challenging Hernia Locations – Flank hernias
Gregory F. Dakin and Michael L. Kendrick
48. Challenging Hernia Locations: Suprapubic and Subxiphoid
John R. Romanelli and Jose E. Espinel
49. Hernias in the Pediatric Population
David M. Krpata and Todd A. Ponsky
50. Spigelian Hernias: Diagnosis and Treatment
Marc Miserez and Marc H. Schreinemacher
51. Hernia, Mesh, and Gynecology Procedures
Lauren Rascoff, Brian Jacob, and Charles Ascher-Walsh