DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My friend had a stoma created after years of managing Crohn's disease. She recently had surgery to repair a hernia. What is a stoma, and are these types of hernias common? What is ...

Occurrence of parastomal hernia depends on the type of loop or terminal colostomy and is estimated at 0-38% and 4-78%, respectively. Most of them appear within 2 years from surgery [1, 2]. With regard ...

2.1 Stomas are created surgically to divert the contents of the urinary or digestive tract through an opening in the abdominal wall. A parastomal hernia allows protrusion of abdominal contents through ...

It was with great interest that I read the article titled “Video-assisted preperitoneal repair of para- ­stomal hernia” published in Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques [1]. Since I am ...

Twenty-three patients with complex medical histories (Table 2) underwent abdominal reconstruction with mesh reinforcement at Royal Liverpool Hospital between 2009 and 2012. A total of 13 patients ...

A stoma is an opening in your belly's wall that a surgeon makes in order for waste to leave your body if you can't have a bowel movement through your rectum. You might get one if you have surgery to ...

Heidi Cresswell had always been superfit. A keen snowboarder and cyclist, she could rarely be found sitting still. So when the 38-year-old discovered a lump in her abdomen she just assumed it was a ...

A woman who created her own ostomy bag covers after having bowel surgery has made more than 600 to give to others. Kimberley Swales, 44, from Yeadon, West Yorkshire, had an ostomy - where part of the ...

There is not much good evidence about how well this procedure works or how safe it is for preventing a parastomal hernia. This procedure can be used but only when patients are having regular checks to ...