Jeffrey A. Blatnik, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Washington University Medical Center 660 S. Euclid Ave. St Louis, MO 63110 USA Melissa Phillips LaPinska, MD, FACS Associate Professor of Surgery University of Tennessee Health Science Center 1930 Alcoa Highway Knoxville, TN 37920 USA
Preoperative Considerations and Patient Optimization.- Inguinal and Femoral Anatomy.- Inguinal Hernia Repair - Selecting a repair.- Prosthestic Options: Advantages and Disadvantages.- Open Non-Mesh Inguinal Hernia Repair.- Open Inguinal Hernia Repair.- Preperitoneal (Stoppa) Open Inguinal Hernia Repair.- Transabdominal Preperitoneal (TAPP) Repair.- Totally Extraperitoneal (TEP) Repair (with video).- Robotic Inguinal Hernia; the why and the how's.- Laparoscopic Femoral Hernia Repair.- Fixation in Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair.- Postoperative Management.- Inguinodynia: Nonoperative Management.- Inguinodynia: Operative Management.- Surgical Outcomes: The Importance of Surgeon Kept Data.- Sports Hernias and Athletic Pubalgia.- Inguinal Hernia Repair in Children.- Inguinal Hernia Repair in the Setting of Bowel Injury / Resection.- Inguinal Hernia Repair Around Prostatectomy.- Recurrent Inguinal Hernia Repair.- Training Surgical Residents in Inguinal Hernia Repair.