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A member asked:
I have heard that a femoral hernia can be life threatening. what can it do?
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Can stangulate: Femoral hernias have more tendency to strangulate, which means kill anything that me be stuck in the hernia such as intestine. If this happens it becomes a surgical emergency and even if fixed correctly could still die from complications from the sepsis, overwhelming infection. They strangulate more, b/c hole is so small.
Answered 1/23/2014
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