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Inguinal Hernia Repair in a Centenarian.

Soniya Pateriya1,2,3, Claudia Corbea1, Joseph Russell1

  • 1Surgery, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Miami, USA.

Cureus
|September 18, 2025
PubMed
Summary

Surgical intervention in centenarians is feasible. A 100-year-old patient successfully underwent open inguinal hernia repair, demonstrating that advanced age is not a barrier to intermediate-risk surgery with proper care.

Keywords:
centenariangeneral surgeryinguinal hernia repairlower abdominal painolder-aged patientspostoperative complicationpreoperative assessment and risk managementrevised cardiac risk indexsurgerysurgical complication

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