Study on hernia repair materials: progress and prospect

Abstract

Hernia is one of common diseases diagnosed and treated in clinic by general surgeons with surgery as major procedure of treatment. Hernia repair materials are used in conventional and laparoscopic tension-free repair. Classification of repair materials based on material quality includes non-absorbable or absorbable man made synthetic mesh, biologic mesh and compound mesh. The mesh would also be classified according to woven way, pore size and density. The hernia repair material in future will be prospected which may have the maximized biologic inertia, minimized overall area, the most excellent surface nature, the most optimized weight of mesh, and biomechanical strength. Further study will be needed on the base of recognition of pathophysiology and material property of mesh.

Keywords

• |hernia|mesh material|biological mesh|compound mesh