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Prevention of Abdominal Adhesions – Present State and What’s beyond the Horizon?

Author(s) -

Bobby Tingstedt,

Karolin Isaksson,

Ellen Andersson,

Rune Andersson

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

european surgical research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.658

H-Index - 46

eISSN - 1421-9921

pISSN - 0014-312X

DOI - 10.1159/000102591

Subject(s) - medicine , asymptomatic , bowel obstruction , adhesion , surgery , infertility , general surgery , intensive care medicine , pregnancy , chemistry , organic chemistry , biology , genetics

Intra-abdominal adhesions are normally found after most surgical procedures. Many of the adhesions are asymptomatic, but in about 5% they will lead to readmission due to adhesion-related disorders, such as small bowel obstruction, pelvic pain and infertility. This review discusses possible ways to prevent abdominal adhesions and provides an update as comes to where we stand today in research regarding experimental and clinical use of various antiadhesive agents.

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