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Hernia Repair

1.Anatomy
2.Medical necessity of Procedure
3.Procedure detail
4.Code selection criteria
5.Important Terminology 

1.Anatomy

Hernia is the protrude of the internal part of body through a weakend muscle or tissue wall in the abdomen.

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2.Medical necessity of Procedure

​Hernia cause pain and also if it get strangulated then abdomen part need to be resected so to avoid this we repair abdominal hernia.

3.Procedure detail

Herniorrhapy or Hernia repair: It is the reducing of the herniated content back to their place, sometime mesh is also applied to prevent from recurrent hernia.

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4.Code selection criteria

Go to Hernia and you will get all code for Hernia repair, So code selection based on

  1. Approach : Either Open or Laparoscopy

  2. Type of Hernia such as Umblical, Inguinal, Incisional , Femoral etc.

  3. Patient age

  4. Encounter for hernia : Initial or recurrent

  5. Nature of hernia: Incarcerated , reducible or obstructed.

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5.Important Terminology

When you will read the report for Hernia repair , You will get some terminology.

  1. Strangulated hernia is the interruption of the blood supply to the intestine as a result of an incarcerated hernia, leading to gangrene, or tissue death and subsequent infection.​

  2. If the content of hernia are not able to be reduced, the hernia is considered as incarcerated. 

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Watch video of this procedure : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffoKThdqo4I

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