way more complex than that," says Mohammed Al-Mahroos, MD,
FRCSC, a minimally invasive and advanced gastrointestinal surgeon at
McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
For patients, there's a trove of online information about mesh repair
— and some of it can be pretty scary. A simple Google search yields
millions of results related to possible complications. Hernia mesh
lawyers hawk litigation related to previously recalled products, with
warnings of post-op pain, infections, recurrence, adhesion, bowel
obstruction and perforation.
So how does this affect care in 2019? The information patients click
through may not always come from scientific sources, and it can be
overwhelming for patients to comb through it all, says Dr. Bachman.
"How do you sort through that? How do you decide what's real and
what's not?" says Dr.
Bachman, who has an
active research inter-
est in prosthetic mate-
rials used in hernia
repair.
The U.S. Food and
Drug Administration
estimates that more
than 1 million hernia
repairs are performed
annually in the United
States. With time,
mesh has become the
commonplace option
for many surgeons,
who cite reduced
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