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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]
Repair using mesh is withheld if a person has an active infection within the groin or within the blood stream Elective repair is delayed in pregnant women until 4 weeks after delivery Additionally, certain medical conditions can prevent people from being candidates for laparoscopic approaches to repair.
Prolene is a brand of synthetic polypropylene used in monofilament nonabsorbable sutures and meshes. The suture is indicated for skin closure and general soft tissue approximation and ligation. Its advantages include minimal tissue reactivity and durability.
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The devices are used in patients undergoing cardiac and non-cardiac surgery, and to treat those who have had heart failure or have acute coronary syndrome, a group of diseases in which blood flow ...
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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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