International Hernia Mesh Registry

Exclusion Criteria

• •Patients who meet any of the following criteria will be excluded from participating in the registry:
• •1. Patients that are \<18 years of age;
• •2. Patients who have been entered into the registry previously;
• •3. Employees of the investigator or registry center with direct involvement in the proposed registry or other studies under the direction of that investigator or registry center and employees of ETHICON;
• •4. Patients suffering from and currently receiving medication for chronic pain (defined as suffering pain for greater than 3 months);
• •5. Patients known to be suffering from pre-existing chronic depression;
• •6. Patients currently known or suspected to abuse drugs or alcohol;
• •7. Patients suffering from a terminal illness (e.g. cancer);
• •8. Patients requiring multiple hernia repairs (including bilateral inguinal/femoral);
• •9. Patients requiring any other (concomitant) surgical procedure;
• •10. Patients suffering from an ongoing infection, sepsis, contaminated mesh or fistulas;
• •11. Patients who require hiatal, paraesophageal or diaphragmatic hernia repair;
• •12. Patients requiring two different types of meshes;
• •13. Patients requiring two or more meshes not sewn together
• •14. Patients scheduled to receive a surgically implanted biologic mesh product for repair of a hernia defect