Levita Magnetics, a company in the forefront of surgical innovation, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for the use of its Magnetic Surgical ...

Hernias occur when an organ or tissue pushes through the barriers that normally contain it in the body, such as connective ...

With a hiatal hernia, part of the stomach bulges ... If it doesn't have symptoms, it may not need treatment at all. A surgical hernia repair involves pushing the bulge back inside the body part ...

Levita Magnetics announced today that it received expanded FDA 510(k) clearance for its MARS (magnetic-assisted robotic ...

Global rise in hernia cases, with common types like inguinal and abdominal hernias, leading to surgical repair and increased ...

This is the most common form of hernia and occurs in the groin area. Your chances of getting this type of hernia go up with ...

The NHS undertakes 100,000 hernia repair operations a year ... He said my problem could be rectified with a hiatus hernia operation done by keyhole surgery. He could tighten the valve and prevent ...

Repair of ventral ... to fail due to recurrence of the hernia. At 10 years, these rates will rise to 65%, 47%, and 39%, respectively. "Even in contaminated surgical settings, synthetic meshes ...

Division of General Surgery, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, United States Introduction: Use of mesh to reinforce laparoscopic hiatal hernia repair ...

Hundreds of people are now coming forward who believe they had unnecessary hernia repair surgeries during planned bariatric ...

Litigation arises out of a class that the complaint states could consist of several hundred, if not thousands, of former ...

Abdominal reconstruction in the contaminated or potentially-contaminated abdomen is challenging because of the high risk of re-infection and hernia recurrence. Surgical techniques, synthetic ...