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[9] [10] Elective surgery is offered to most patients taking into account their level of pain, discomfort, degree of disruption in normal activity, as well as their overall level of health. [9] Emergency surgery is typically reserved for patients with life-threatening complications of inguinal hernias such as incarceration and strangulation.
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]
When herniotomy is combined with a reinforced repair of the posterior inguinal canal wall with autogenous (patient's own tissue) or heterogeneous material such as prolene mesh, it is termed hernioplasty as opposed to herniorrhaphy, in which no autogenous or heterogeneous material is used for reinforcement. [citation needed]
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