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On June 13, 2016, Health Canada issued a recall of Ethicon's Physiomesh Flexible Composite Mesh Product used for ventral hernia repair. [13] The product had been on the Canadian market since September 2010 and patients claimed a range of complications following surgery. [14]
Repairs that utilize mesh are usually the first recommendation for the vast majority of patients including those that undergo laparoscopic repair. [12] Procedures that employ mesh are the most commonly performed as they have been able to demonstrate better results compared to non-mesh repairs. [ 21 ]
The most recent reported recurrence rate (involving 230 patients with 420 hernias and a maximum of 8 years follow-up) was 0.71%. [5] The totally extra-peritoneal repair (TEP) uses exactly the same principles as the Stoppa repair, except that it is performed laparoscopically .
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