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1st World Congress in Hernia Surgery, Milan, Italy, April 2015

Dr. Dumanian will have three presentations at the world meeting in Hernia Surgery in Milan, Italy.  He will present his research using a mesh suture for laparotomy closures, he will present his aesthetic surgery abdominoplasties with mesh, and finally he will recount his experience using MOTIF mesh in contaminated ventral hernia repairs.

What happens to the muscles on the side after a components release? Do they weaken?

There are three side muscles–the external oblique, the internal oblique, and the transversus abdominis.  The most common version of the components release hernia repair cuts the external oblique muscle as it inserts onto the vertical rectus abdominis muscles.  The side muscles become more compliant (stretchy) with the external oblique cut, allowing the rectus abdominis muscles…Read More…

AWR (Abdominal Wall Reconstruction) Meeting, Washington DC, 2014

Dr. Dumanian will give three lectures at the AWR meeting this coming June.  The first will be entitled “The tissue response to synthetic and biologic materials”.  The second is “Local and free flap reconstruction”.  The third is “Perforator Sparing:  Why not the standard”.  On June 13, he will be on a panel entitled “Stump the…Read More…

Mesh suture presentations

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…