The risk of recurrence is greater with obese patients or those who have had multiple earlier operations or the prior placement of mesh patches. Some of the factors that cause incisional hernias to ...

Quitting smoking ahead of a planned surgery can allow wounds to heal properly and prevent incisional hernias in the scar ...

METHODS: Six patients suffering from recurrent and complicated incisional hernias underwent a hybrid technique for their repair. The open part of the operation ensured extensive and safe ...

We hope you'll never need to know this—but in case symptoms of a hernia ever creep up, a Cleveland Clinic surgeon reveals ...

incisional hernias, recurrent hernias, mesh problems, and chronic groin pain. Our multidisciplinary team of hernia specialists uses a wide variety of surgical techniques including robotic surgery and ...

"A surgeon can do more for the community by operating on hernia cases and seeing that his recurrence rate is low than he can by operating on cases of malignant disease" Incisional hernias can ...

For example, in a study comparing suture repair of incisional hernia to mesh repair, it was found that "mesh repair results in a lower recurrence rate and less abdominal pain and does not result ...