Editing Hernia (section)

== '''Management principles''' ==

* Goals
** Fix the problem/restoration of function in line with patient expectations
** Minimise complications, pain, disability
** Cosmesis
** Durable repair with low recurrence rate
** Functional/dynamic abdominal wall
* Principles
** Optimise patient pre-op
** Restore anatomy and recreate linea alba
** Reinforce the repair when possible with wide mesh overlap
** Tension-free repair
* Contraindications to operation
** Medically/surgically unfit
** Absence of available tissue
** No benefit or improvement in QoL
** Risks outweigh benefits