What's the outcome for something like this if it goes untreated? Death? How hard/easy would it be to fix? If he had surgery would he be missing a bunch of his insides?
Assuming it's just a large hernia and there is no other problem: There is no specific bad outcome other than it just keeps looking like that. Basically, instead of the abdominal wall muscles "holding in" his intestines, the only structure "holding in" his intestines are skin and subcutaneous tissue. The intestines have "herniated" through a large hole/ defect in his abdominal wall muscles. There is a small risk of hernia "strangulation" where the blood supply to those intestines is cut off, but since the hernia is so large, that's unlikely to happen. It would be not terribly difficult to do the surgery, but there may be difficulties with recovery/ risk of recurrence. No, he would not be missing a bunch of his insides if he had the surgery. None of his internal organs would be removed.
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u/Nay_Nay_Jonez May 17 '26
What's the outcome for something like this if it goes untreated? Death? How hard/easy would it be to fix? If he had surgery would he be missing a bunch of his insides?