“…Patient-related risk factors for parastomal hernia include female sex; age >60 years; obesity (waist circumference of >100 cm or body mass index of >25 kg/m 2 ); smoking; comorbidities such as hypertension, chronic respiratory disease, and ascites; poor nutritional status; inlammatory bowel disease; immunosuppression; corticosteroid use; postoperative sepsis; concomitant incisional hernia; and increases in intra-abdominal pressure [8,10,11,14,15]. Surgery or technique-speciic factors that should be taken into consideration include emergency stoma placement, the type of stoma (Table 1), surgical technique for ostomy construction, the diameter of the trephine, or size of the aperture in the abdominal wall, bringing the stoma out through the resection site, placement of prophylactic mesh, and position of the stoma [2,6,7,10,16].…”