Complex Abdominal Hernia

Comprehensive care for complex hernias

由于过去的肠梗阻，感染或肠被捕获或窒息，复杂的腹腔疝难以关闭。当另一个器官（例如附录，卵巢或脾脏）通过腹壁时也可能发生复杂的疝气。

A complex hernia may be caused by:

• Aging
• Anemia (lack of healthy red blood cells)
• 癌症
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Congenital defect
• Excessive abdominal pressure after surgery
• Excessive corticosteroid use
• 多个疝气手术
• Obesity
• Poor hernia repair
• Smoking
• Thinning or weakening of the previous surgical area
• Wound infection

宾夕法尼亚州健康治疗的复杂疝和相关并发症的类型包括：118金宝搏抽水

• 腹部墙壁群
• Femoral hernia
• Flank hernias
• Post-transplant hernias
• 疝气疝
• Incisional hernias
• Inguinal hernia
• Inguinal pain
• Internal hernias
• Loss of domain hernias
• 网格并发症（疼痛，感染，侵蚀）
• Obturator hernias
• Paraduodenal Hernias.
• Parastomal Hernia.
• 创伤后疝气
• Recurrent hernias
• 特殊儿科疝气
• Spigelian hernias
• Thoracoabdominal hernia
• Ventral hernias

Symptoms, Diagnosis and Outlook

Symptoms of a complex abdominal hernia include:

• Abdominal pain
• 便秘
• Previous hernia repair
• Redness, pain or hardness of the hernia
• 呕吐

To diagnose an abdominal hernia, we may perform the following tests:

• 超声波 - 声波成像装置放置在胃部，看看腹部和骨盆器官的结构
• 电脑断层扫描（CT） - 喝液体后，放射科医师在CT扫描仪中查看腹部和盆腔器官的结构
• 磁共振成像（MRI） - 放射科医生使用MRI扫描来检测腹部肌肉中的任何小泪液

我们的医生有几十年的复杂疝气经验。我们的综合术前计划旨在降低疝气复发和其他术后并发症等术后并发症。我们将在手术前与您和您的主要护理医师合作，帮助您吸烟，减肥或其他可能使疝气手术成功的慢性健康问题。我们的目标是帮助您快速恢复并提高您的生活质量。

为什么选择宾夕法尼亚州118金宝搏抽水的健康照顾

Experienced Minimally Invasive Surgeons

宾夕法尼亚州健康的腹部疝气专家使用创新的疝气修复技术，包括机器人118金宝搏抽水辅助手术。我们的医生是训练的机器人，疝气修复的机器人，微创和开放方法。他们专注于管理疝气相关的并发症，如疼痛，网眼感染和复发疝。在手术期间，我们的经验使我们能够选择修复疝气的最佳方式。手术方法可包括非网状维修，永久性合成网，生物网和生物可吸收网眼。

我们的外科医生是Hernia修复方法的国家领导者，并提供访问外科医生计划，以教导其他外科医生了解我们的创新外科技巧。我们参加了美洲疝气社会质量合作, to track and understand the results of every hernia surgery we perform.

Types of surgical repairs we perform include:

• Component separation
• eTEP
• 杂交种
• Laparoscopic
• Mesh excision
• Non-mesh repairs (when applicable)
• Open
• Robotic-assisted
• Transversus aqbdominis release

A Comprehensive, Multidisciplinary Team Approach

We offer a comprehensive, personalized approach to hernia repair. We recognize that no two hernias and no two hernia repairs are the same. Because we have such a broad array of techniques, meshes and experience, we can offer patients the right repair at the right time.

The comprehensive care at Penn State Health includes interaction with many specialties who are part of our hernia clinic, including:

• Endocrinology specialists
• Infectious disease specialists
• 止痛药专家
• Smoking cessation counseling
• Weight loss specialists (surgical and medical)

胃肠病学的公认领导者

As the only university-affiliated health system in central Pennsylvania, we offer some of the latest treatments backed by clinical research and medical innovation. Our providers have unmatched expertise in a wide range of conditions and extensive experience in caring for people with digestive disorders. You can get leading-edge care right here.

These are a few reasons why families choose us:

• We perform more minimally invasive surgeries than any other gastroenterology group in central Pennsylvania, including laparoscopic, single-site and robotic-assisted surgery.
• Our digestive health experts perform leading-edge endoscopic approaches, which use a scope, camera and tiny instruments, to diagnose and treat many conditions without surgery.
• We use advanced technology to enhance safety and precision. Our surgical SUPERSUITE® integrates imaging, robotics and precision instrumentation into a complete system that allows surgeons to provide safer, more efficient care.

Support Groups

支持小组提供了与正在经历类似斗争的其他患者和护理人员与其他患者和护理人员分享自己的感受。

Learn more about support groups offered