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Complications of the Kugel Hernia Patch

• Bowel perforations / rupture
• Bowel perforation is a type of gastrointestinal perforation.  It involves an abnormal hole, puncture or opening in the bowel that allows contents of the intestine to leak into the abdomen. The condition is serious and can lead to infection / peritonitis.  
• Chronic intestinal fistulae, or abnormal connections or passageways between the bowels, intestines and other organs in the abdomen, adherence of patch to bowels
• Intestinal fistulas can result from abdominal surgery such as hernia repair using a Kugel Mesh Patch.  Intestinal fistulas are abnormal passages between the intestine and an internal organ or the body. Fistulas can require the patient to undergo surgery to remove part of the intestine.  They can be very serious and life-threatening to the patient.
• Cutting of surrounding tissue
• Infection, fever
• Recoil ring can migrate
• Recoil ring can break
• Severe abdominal pain, tenderness
• Need for bowel dissection surgery