[Surgical treatment of postop large size abdominal hernia in patients with obesity]

There were 140 patients with morbid obesity operated on for postoperative abdominal hernia. In 2 (1.4%) patients an acute cardiopulmonary insufficiency occurred, and in another 2 (1.4%) an acute thrombophlebitis of the lower extremities veins. Two patients died. The hernia recurrence have occurred in 3 (2.1%) patients operated according to Mayo method in terms from 1 to 5 years later.