The diagnosis for an inguinal hernia is made by performing a physical examination and hearing your patient history. Patients with an inguinal hernia will complain of a bulge and sometimes have groin pain. In some cases, medications such as steroids can be used successfully and you won't need a laparoscopic splenectomy. In other cases, medication might not work or could lead to unacceptable side effects. If your medical therapy fails, your physician will likely refer you for surgical removal of the spleen.
Surgery is the only way to repair an inguinal hernia.
In fact, hernias tend to get larger over time, and the increase in size may make eventual repair more difficult. With few exceptions, once a hernia is diagnosed, it should be repaired at your earliest convenience. This eventually leads to ischemia of the intestine and must be treated with removal of the ischemic or dead segment of intestine. More than half a million hernia repairs are done annually in the United States. With traditional inguinal hernia repair, a three to five inch incision is made in the groin.