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1. Article Information, Introduction
2. New Prosthetics, Innovations in Umbilical and Epigastric Hernia Repair
3. New Techniques in the Repair of Incisonal Hernias
SUMMARY
The once boring topic of VIH has, during the past several years, become a topic receiving a tremendous amount of attention from surgeons, researchers, companies, as well as patients. The authors have gone from a time when suture repair and a high rate of failure was the norm, to a time now of multiple techniques for repair with an explosion of new prosthetics and low recurrence rates. The future will be spent trying to determine the physiology of hernia formation, predicting who is likely to develop the problem, and genetically engineering the proper prosthetic for successful repair.
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