Baker JJ, et al. - Researchers investigated if defect closure vs no defect closure in laparoscopic ventral hernia repair attenuates the re-operation rate for recurrence. They used the Danish Ventral Hernia Database to obtain data for adults with an elective laparoscopic ventral hernia repair with tacks used as mesh fixation, only if their first repair was between the 1st of January 2007 and the 1st of January 2017. A total of 443 received defect closure and 532 did not among patients with absorbable tacks as mesh fixation. In this nationwide cohort study, an attenuated risk of re-operation for recurrence was observed if defect closure was carried out in addition to permanent tacks as mesh fixation during laparoscopic incisional hernia repair.