The hernia may require surgery.
Mbede developed the hernia while in prison.
The hernia may be classified as reducible, irreducible, or strangulated.
The hernia, too, had receded to a back burner.
The hernia was fixed a few days later.
The meshlike material then serves as a substrate that allows internal tissue to grow and resolve the hernia.
His surgeons had started them after the hernia surgery to promote wound healing; there is evidence that this can be helpful, especially early on.
But the broader industry has not followed suit, even though seemingly innocuous devices like the hernia patch can cause as much, if not more, havoc in patients.
He needed weeks of intravenous antibiotics, and he was still living with the consequences: the incision that the doctors made to repair the hernia never healed.
In most hospitals, hernia operations take about 90 minutes and cost more than $4,000; in 10-15% of the cases, the operation fails and the hernia returns.
The hernia sack was dissected and reduced.
