International Hernia Mesh Registry

To help identify best practices leading to lower recurrence rates and decreases in chronic
pain associated with the hernia repair procedure.

Inclusion Criteria:

- Provide written informed consent prior to surgery;

- Male or female patients that are greater than or equal to 18 years of age

- Be literate and able to understand a language available in the Registry Patient
Questionnaires;

- Be scheduled to receive a surgically implanted synthetic mesh product for repair of a
hernia defect;

- Agree to provide long-term, outcomes data to Quintiles Outcome;

- Agree to provide contact information;

- Two or more pieces of the same manufacturer mesh product sewn together will be
considered as one mesh, and is therefore allowed in this registry

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients that are <18 years of age;

- Patients who have been entered into the registry previously;

- 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;

- Patients suffering from and currently receiving medication for chronic pain;

- Patients known to be suffering from pre-existing chronic depression;

- Patients currently known or suspected to abuse drugs or alcohol;

- Patients suffering from a terminal illness (e.g. cancer);

- Patients requiring multiple hernia repairs;

- Patients requiring any other (concomitant) surgical procedure;

- Patients suffering from an ongoing infection, sepsis, contaminated mesh or fistulas;

- Patients who require hiatal, paraesophageal or diaphragmatic hernia repair;

- Patients requiring two different types of meshes;

- Patients scheduled to receive a surgically implanted biologic mesh product for repair
of a hernia defect;