 Hi, I'm Dr. Loeth. I'm a surgical gastroenterologist, J.I. of Colleges and a bariatric surgeon from Manipal Hospital, Sahajaaparo. Today, I'll be updating you guys on ventral harnias. See, ventral harnias are basically abdominal wall lumps, which can be either classified into epigastric harnias, umbilical harnias and incision harnias. They're basically present as a swelling in the abdominal wall. They also can present with pain, redness around this swelling. And usually are associated with excessive coughing, straining, freeway surgeries, obesity and weak abdominal wall muscles. So, we generally know much about ventral harnias. Treatment is basically a new technique called ETEP, which is Enhanced View Laparoscopic Repair, wherein old repair, which is called IPOM repair, had specialized meshes and tackers, which was required, which has to be fixed. Hence, the tacker pain causing delayed recovery was much higher. Now, in ETEP, there is a large space which is created laparoscopically. And hence, since it's a large space, a large mesh can be placed and it is inexpensive compared to the old laparoscopic IPOM technique, wherein there will be no specialized mesh, no specialized tackers are required. And hence, the recovery is also much faster, cost effective. So, this is the new update on ETEP. So, in ETEP, since it's a large space, large mesh can be placed, it is cost effective as there is no specialized mesh or specialized tackers to be required. Since there is no use of tackers, the pain is much lesser, the recovery is much faster. Back to work, usually it's very quick compared to the regular IPOM repairs. So, anybody who has ventral hernias or hernias which requires treatment can reach up to us for the newest technique. Thank you.