Laparoscopic Hernia

Keyhole repair of inguinal hernia

The Laparoscopic inguinal hernia (Totally Extra Peritoneal; TEP) surgery is a technique to repair your hernia with three small scars placing the mesh in the preperitoneal plane.

This has a number of advantages

• Improved recovery
• Less chronic pain
• The mesh is in a more physiologically appropriate layer of the abdominal wall
• Indicated in repair of recurrent hernia
• Indicated in bilateral hernia (both left and right)

Preoperative cares

You may be told to discontinue your blood thinning agents preoperatively.

Operation

You will be under a General Anaesthesia (GA). There will be three small scars in the lower abdomen. Through these the mesh is introduced and placed behind the abdominal wall muscles

Post operative

• Day case surgery
• No heavy lifting 2 weeks