Associated with low birth weight, any disease in the abdomen that increases the pressure, hypospadias, cryptorchidism. The large hydrocele or hernia is unlikely to resolve and may be repaired sooner. If your baby is being observed or waiting for surgery, you need to watch out for bowel squeezing its way into the scrotum and getting stuck. If this happens, your baby needs to see the doctor right away so he can squeeze the bowel out of the hernia before damage occurs. Complications include injuring the blood supply to the testicle, the vas deferens or the hernia or hydrocele coming back.
Prognosis is excellent, except for massive hernias or strangled bowels.
The patent processus vaginalis and the inguinal hernia.