Inguinal hernia is a very common disease, affecting millions of people in
the US alone. Considered a surgical disease, inguinal hernia
accounts for thousands of annual operations worldwide.
Although inguinal hernia can occur in both sexes, the disorder mainly affects
men. inguinal hernia usually occurs in the context of a weak lower abdominal
wall, allowing the internal soft tissues to pierce through it. Symptoms of
inguinal hernia are pain and abdominal discomfort (which intensify with intense
physical effort or sudden moves), abdominal bloating and nausea. Some people
with hernias are asymptomatic, which makes the process much more difficult to
diagnose the disease.
Although surgery for inguinal hernia is a simple
procedure, most patients undergo postoperative recurrence of the disease.
Therefore, in many cases, surgical treatment of the inguinal hernia only
provides temporary relief, and most patients who suffer surgical hernia are
later hospitalized due to complications.
Doctors have begun to doubt the
efficiency of most surgical treatments for inguinal hernia and nowadays they
recommend surgery for patients with complicated forms of the disease. Statistics show that patients who have their inguinal hernia surgically
corrected can in time to experience a relapse of the disease and they are
actually more likely to develop complications than patients who delay their
surgery.
In many
cases, the factors leading to relapse of inguinal hernias in patients
undergoing surgery are related to native predispositions. It seems
that most patients experience postoperative recurrence of their inguinal hernia
have a weak abdominal wall or other internal physiological abnormalities. The
categories exposed to a higher risk of relapse are: people with native defects
of the internal organs (gastrointestinal problems), people with physiological
abnormalities of the abdominal wall and people whose careers involve intense
physical activities. Patients in these categories are advised to delay their
inguinal hernia surgery as long as possible to avoid a recurrence or worsening
of the disease.
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