Dr. Dumanian has led an effort to develop a new type of surgical suture for abdominal wall closures.  Called “mesh suture”, the innovative suture design allows the tissues to grow into the suture itself for an improved tissue hold.  Dr. Dumanian’s team will present their findings on experimental rat hernia closures comparing a “mesh suture”…Read More…

Dr. Dumanian has several presentations at the upcoming microsurgery meeting in Jan 2014.  He will present two abstracts focused on the perceptions and goals of upper extremity amputees along with Dr. Sally Jensen, PhD.  He will also participate on a panel of what is new in abdominal wall (hernia) reconstruction.

We presented a poster on our experience in 24 patients who had recurrent ventral hernias, but who had had a prior bioprosthetic mesh repair.  Most of the patients were repaired successfully with prosthetic mesh.

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I just spent the weekend at the Association des Specialistes en Chirurgie Plastique et Esthetique du Quebec, in Montreal Canada.  It was a wonderful weekend at the Esterel resort, guest of Professor Lessard and the other members of the association.  I spoke about abdominal wall reconstruction, and the use of nerve transfers for management of…Read More…

The Abdominal Wall Meeting in Washington DC will bring together up to 1000 surgeons who perform abdominal wall reconstruction.  I will give two lectures.  The first is on the role of synthetic meshes in hernia repair.  The other is on soft tissue flaps as an aid to complex abdominal wall reconstruction.  I will also participate…Read More…

At the national plastic surgery meeting, I will help give a course on abdominal wall reconstruction with Dr. Chuck Butler and Dr. Gordan Lee.  My topics are the use of prosthetic mesh, and the treatment of infected mesh.  I have two paper presentations as well.  One paper is on plastic surgeon “burn-out” and the factors…Read More…

I participated with Dr. Alex Shin at the 2011 ASSH meeting in Las Vegas, and gave a course on management of symptomatic neuromas.