Obscure digestive bleeding.

A 50-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with several episodes of melena in the last week. The patient was not hemodynamically compromised and was conservatively managed. Urgent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and colonoscopy showed no source of bleeding.

[Prosthetic infection after hernioplasty. Five years experience].

Introduction: Prosthesis infection is an infrequent but important complication in abdominal wall surgery. The aim of this study is to evaluate the incidence and risk factors for the infection of the prosthesis after hernia repair, as well as the treatment to apply.

Material And Method: Between January 2002 and December 2006, we performed 1055 prosthetic hernia repairs: 761 inguinal hernias (72.