1. Contemporary concepts in hernia prevention: Selected proceedings from the 2017 International Symposium on Prevention of Incisional Hernias
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Filip Muysoms, Gina L. Adrales, Silvia Valverde, Dana K. Andersen, Pilar Hernández Granados, Michel Prudhomme, William H. Hope, Howard Levinson, Holger Diener, Cesare Stabilini, Jared Torkington, Birgitta M. Hansson, John P. Fischer, José Antonio Pereira, B. East, Manuel López-Cano, Gregory A. Dumanian, David M. Young, Johannes Jeekel, Michael C. Hiles, Hobart W. Harris, Miguel Ángel García Ureña, George J. Gibeily, Eva B. Deerenberg, Archana Ramaswamy, Surgery, Neurosciences, and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes (CHU Nîmes)
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Incisional hernia ,General surgery ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,education ,MEDLINE ,Midline laparotomy ,030230 surgery ,medicine.disease ,03 medical and health sciences ,High morbidity ,0302 clinical medicine ,surgical procedures, operative ,Quality of life ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,medicine ,Surgery ,Hernia ,business - Abstract
Incisional hernia is a frequent complication of midline laparotomy and enterostomal creation and is associated with high morbidity, decreased quality of life, and high costs. The International Symposium on Incisional Hernia Prevention was held October 19 –20, 2017, at the InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco, CA, hosted by the Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco. One hundred and three attendees included general and plastic surgeons from 9 countries, including principal participants for several of the seminal studies in the field. Over the course of the 2-day meeting, there were 38 oral presentations, 3 keynote lectures, and 2 panel discussions. The Symposium was a combination of new information but also a comprehensive review of the existing data so as to assess the current state of the field and to set the stage for future research. Further, the Symposium sought to increase awareness and thus emphasize the importance of preventing the formation of incisional and enterostomal hernias. pre-print 443 KB
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- 2018