Comprehensive Hernia Surgery: From Clinical Diagnosis to Postoperative Care
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "General Surgery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2026 | Viewed by 66
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, the surgical treatment of ventral hernia represents a continuous challenge. This is mainly due to hernia location (lateral, parastomal), complexity (in relation to the width or to a loss of domain), or to the patient's weight, especially obesity. Ventral hernia incidence, size, and recurrence rate are all increased in this population. Despite international guidelines and worldwide consensus updates, evidence gaps persist at all points. This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the advances in the treatment of ventral hernia, with particular interest in the management of patients with obesity, complex localisations, and the use of innovative techniques of preoptimization (botulinum toxin, preoperative pneumoperitoneum) and surgical repair (innovative mesh, robotic). They are now also performed with a minimally invasive approach. Even if the exact place of all these techniques still needs to be better defined, depending on the different hernia types, these laparoscopic or robot-assisted approaches already tend to allow faster post-operative recovery. The lack of strong evidence and expert consensus on these topics has identified gaps in knowledge where there is a need for further evidence. Therefore, researchers in the field of abdominal wall repair are encouraged to submit their findings as original articles, meta-analyses or reviews, and surgical techniques to this Special Issue.
Dr. Luca Regusci
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ventral hernia
- complexe hernias
- botox treatment
- laparoscopic surgery
- robotic surgery
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