Some of the factors that cause incisional hernias to occur in the first place, such as obesity and nutritional disorders, will persist in certain patients and encourage the development of a second ...

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

Incisional hernia in the abdomen is due to weakness of the wall of the surgical scar and leads to protrusion of the intestine. "A surgeon can do more for the community by operating on hernia cases ...