Meet the editor

Dr Angelo Guttadauro is a researcher at the University of Milan-Bicocca and first level manager at the U.O.C. of General Surgery at the Zucchi Clinical Institutes of Monza. He is the founder and head of the "Hernia Center" of Monza-Brianza. He has participated in research projects of the Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research. In 2015 he obtained an international patent for a prosthesis for inguinal hernioplasty

and standardized a new surgical technique for the application of the aforementioned method. In 2017 he won the Innovation Grant award of the University of Milan-Bicocca. He is the author of 78 scientific publications, books and abstracts published in national and international journals and book chapters. He has presented his works at around 200 national and international congresses.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by Angelo Guttadauro*

**Foreword III**

**Preface V**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Ventral Hernia **7**

**Chapter 2 9**

**Chapter 3 21**

**Chapter 4 39**

**Chapter 5 59**

Inguinal Hernia **79**

**Chapter 6 81**

Introductory Chapter: State of the Art in Hernia Surgery

Laparoscopic Retromuscular Repair of Ventral Hernias:

Refinements and Advancements in Anterior Component

The Tension-Free Repairs without Mesh: Desarda and Modified

Ventral Hernia: Causes and Management

*by Anil Kumar and Shiv Shankar Paswan*

*by Sahil K. Kapur and Charles E. Butler*

*by Abdul Mannan Khan Rao*

eTEP and eTEP-TAR *by Victor G. Radu*

Incisional Hernia

Separation

**Section 3**

Bassini Techniques

*by Frederica Jessie Tchoungui Ritz*

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The history of medicine emphasizes that because of epidemiological relevance, the hernia has always drawn the careful attention of general practitioners and especially of surgeons. Hernia sites are many and the disease can become disabling and, with

Foreword

The surgeon's goal is to carry out an operation with fast recovery, as painless as possible. and without recurrence risk. At the end of the last century, technical improvements (especially the employment of synthetic meshes and, for certain types of hernias and laparoceles, the laparoscopic approach) led to a fundamental evolution of this surgery with a increased development of new methods of repair.

For this reason, any scientific contribution, including the various clinical aspects, is interesting, such as the evolution of new operative techniques or the evaluation of the results of methods commonly used in daily surgical activity. Recently, particular interest has been aroused by the prevention and treatment of complications and by the new problems connected with the widespread use of prosthetic materials.

This book's Editor is Dr Angelo Guttadauro, my excellent university assistant and my dear friend. Keen on this surgery even with original ideas, Dr Guttadauro has produced a good update with the contribution of specialists from several countries. The final result is effective, so I am sure that this further scientific contribution will be welcomed by all the surgeons and in particular by the specialists dealing

**Francesco Gabrielli**

Milan, Italy

Full Professor of General Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery,

University of Milano-Bicocca,

its complications, dangerous.

routinely with this pathology.
