Textile-based prosthesis for treatment of inguinal hernia

A method of repair of a hernia in an inguinal area of a patient, the method comprising:

• providing a prosthesis in an unstressed configuration, the prosthesis defining a longitudinal axis aligned on a medial-lateral axis and a transversal axis aligned on a cranial-caudal axis, wherein the prosthesis includes at least one flexible biocompatible textile of elongate shape having a medial end, a lateral end, a cranial part and a caudal part, the textile delimited by a peripheral outer edge formed of a convex medial edge, a convex cranial edge, a convex lateral edge and a caudal edge, and, at least one reinforcing element for the textile, the reinforcing element in the form of a resilient frame connected to the textile and set back from the peripheral outer edge, the frame including a convex cranial segment extending from the medial end of the textile to the lateral end of the textile along the convex cranial edge, a caudal segment substantially extending from the medial end of the textile to the lateral end of the textile and caudally spaced with respect to the convex cranial segment, a lateral corner segment joining together the convex cranial segment and the caudal segment in the lateral end of the textile, a folding segment configured for joining a medial end of the convex cranial segment to a point located on the caudal segment while leaving a region of the medial end of the textile free of any frame,
• pressing the prosthesis together along a folding direction into a stressed configuration,
• inserting the prosthesis in the stressed configuration through an incision on an abdominal skin of a patient to a site of implantation in the inguinal region of the patient, and
• deploying the prosthesis into an unstressed configuration at the site of implantation.