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

if a hernia causes severe complications such as strangulation or obstruction, it may lead to perforation of the intestine, ...

The prognosis for hernia repairs is ... as Strangulation and Intestinal obstruction. About 5% of primary inguinal hernia repairs are undertaken as emergencies. Abdominal hernias usually do not ...

Abdominal CT scan showed small ... was diagnosed with a reduction en masse of an inguinal hernia and secondary mechanical small bowel obstruction. An emergency operation was performed under ...