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Keep Your Nose Clean - Outpatient Surgery Magazine - August 2018

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options, I've also reinvented an old non-mesh inguinal hernia repair based on an open procedure that was developed in the 1960s that I can now do robotically. It's called an open posterior or iliopubic tract repair. I used to do it in open fashion for sick and complex patients who had intestinal strangulation, and in whom I couldn't use mesh. The robotic iliopubic tract repair is the same posterior repair. You approach the hernia from behind and sew it closed with robotic assis- tance. I now offer this electively for patients who don't want, or can't have, mesh. Whether you do it open, the way it was originally described, or with the robot, it's a great repair for the general surgeon to learn. The results have been very good, and we've shared our short-term and long-term data with this repair at SAGES and the Americas Hernia Society meet- ings. In our Phase I trial, we used the tech- nique on small non- recurrent, non-scrotal hernias in non-obese patients — basically healthy people with small hernias. They all did really well and had no recurrence at 2 years. Now we're in Phase 3 and expand- ing our enrollment opportunities to larg- er non-recurrent A U G U S T 2 0 1 8 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y. N E T • 7 7 Call: 844-SUTURES • info@eSutures.com • eSutures.com Over 1 million surgical items in stock and ready to ship same day!

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