Sensitivity analyses surrounding the base-line risk of hernia, mortality rates for patients with nonoperative cancer, and rates of re-operation after recurrence were also conducted.
Earlier methods relied on sutures to repair the hernia under tension, whereas newer methods involved placing a synthetic mesh over the defect without tension.
One man was unemployed while he waited for a hernia operation.
Until the adoption of synthetic mesh in the 1990s, methods of hernia repair had changed little since the nineteenth century.
A physical examination was performed assessing physical markers of collagen weakness including the presence of striae, hernia, joint mobility and varicose veins.
Physical markers of collagen abnormalities include development of hernia, striae, varicose veins, haemorrhoids and joint hypermobility.
This is predominantly because of the high incidence of chromosomal or other structural anomalies associated with diaphragmatic hernia.
Perinatal outcome and prognostic factors in prenatally diagnosed congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
