The Avenue Hospital
Mr Charles Leinkram is a General surgeon who has an interest in hernia repair and abdominoplasty (tummy-tuck). In 2002, Charles joined the Melbourne Hernia Clinic, Australia’s first hernia clinic which has now treated over 20,000 patients. Today, he is the principal surgeon at the clinic, performing around 400 hernia operations each year.
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26 Balaclava Rd
St Kilda East, VIC, 3183
03 9525 9077
03 9527 1519
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The vast majority of hernias are treated as day cases, performed under Local Anaesthetic with sedation. The benefits of the Local Anaesthetic sedation technique are that the patient wakes up more lucidly and is pain-free because the Local is still working. When the Local Anaesthetic begins to wear off, the patient is less drowsy and able to better manage pain relief. This means that there is usually less overall pain and the reduced doses of analgesics mean that there are fewer side effects as well.
Charles also has wide experience in the treatment of large complex incisional hernias, often after failed attempts at repair by other surgeons. These operations require a General Anaesthetic and several days in hospital.