Guest guest Posted April 25, 2004 Report Share Posted April 25, 2004 These quotes are from the same British site (UK Adhesion Society) but I thought they were fairly poignant. Since the source of the data is not cited on the web site it is important to do more research to corroborate these statements. " Following reproductive pelvic surgery performed by laparotomy, 55% to 100% of patients are shown to have Adhesions at subsequent surgeries. The number of hospital readmissions for Adhesion related complications rival the number of operations for heart bypass, hip replacements and appendix operations. " http://www.adhesions.org.uk/ard.html " A study involveing 120 patients undergoing reoperative laparotomy, estimated an increase of 24 minutes in total time of operation, because of intra-abdominal Adhesions from a previous surgery. A 21% risk of Adhesion related bowel perforation was identified in 274 patients undergoing relaparotomy. " http://www.adhesions.org.uk/adhesions.html I posted some additional information about adhesions back in January that you may want to refer to as well: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/uterinefibroids/message/45141 (message 45141) --Ann --Ann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.