Review of 87 Patients with Incisional Hernia and its Risk Factors

Salih Al-Janabi, Issam; Mohammed Ali, Haydar

	Review of 87 Patients with Incisional Hernia and its Risk Factors
IRAQI JOURNALOF COMMUNITY MEDICINE
Article 1, Volume 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 341-346
Authors
Issam Salih Al-Janabi; Haydar Mohammed Ali
Abstract
Abstract Background: Incisional hernia is a common complication of abdominal surgeries and more following emergency than elective surgery with many risk factors playing role in its occurrence. Objectives: To show the important risk factors and their relation to the occurrence of incisional hernia in the present cases Patients and methods: Eighty seven patients with incisional hernia who were admitted in the fifth floor (third unit)/department of surgery in Baghdad Teaching Hospital were included in this case series study during the period from Jan 2007 to Jan 2009; they were inquired about their history and were examined for their scars. Results: Seventy eight patients out of 87 (89.6%) patients are presented for elective repair, and 9 patients (10.3%) were presented with complicated incisional hernia undergo emergency surgery. Vertical incision found in 59 patients (67.8%) and emergency surgery had been done in 55 patients (63.2%). Conclusion: Vertical incision and emergency surgery were the more frequent risk factors for incisional hernia in the study. With prolong time interval (between the presentation with incisional hernia & the remedy surgery) for more than 6 years, age >60 years or defect >10cm increases the risk for emergency presentation of incisional hernia. Keywords: Incisional hernia, risk factor
Keywords
Incisional hernia; risk factor

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