OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence of bowel injury in operations requiring adhesiolysis and to assess the impact of adhesiolysis on the incidence of surgical complications, postoperative morbidity, and costs. BACKGROUND Morbidity of adhesiolysis during abdominal surgery seems an important health care problem, but the direct impact of adhesiolysis on inadvertent organ damage, morbidity, and ...

background: the purpose of the study was to evaluate menstrual and reproductive outcome in patients diagnosed with asherman’s syndrome on hysteroscopy and to assess the role of hysteroscopic adhesiolysis. methods: a prospective study was performed for patients having intrauterine adhesion at a tertiary care teaching hospital, indore, india for a period of 2 years. findings at hysteroscopy, deta...

BACKGROUND Interventional techniques for the treatment of spinal techniques are commonly used and are increasing exponentially. Epidural injections and facet joint interventions are the 2 most commonly utilized procedures in interventional pain management. The current literature regarding the effectiveness of epidural injections is sparse with highly variable outcomes based on the technique, ou...

OBJECTIVE To estimate adhesiolysis rates at cesarean delivery (CD) and to estimate costs and clinical implications of performing adhesiolysis at repeat CD. DESIGN Retrospective cohort using secondary data. SETTING Over 500 acute care hospitals in the USA. POPULATION Women ≥15 years old with a medical claim for CD between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2008 who were treated in a hospital t...

BACKGROUND Adhesions are fibrous bands of scar tissue, often a result of surgery, that form between internal organs and tissues, joining them together abnormally. Postoperative adhesions frequently occur following abdominal surgery, and are associated with a large economic burden. This study examines the inpatient burden of adhesiolysis in the United States (i.e., number and rate of events, cos...

Continuous epidural analgesia has been used for decades to treat acute herpes zoster pain and to prevent postherpetic neuralgia. However, many technical problems can arise during chronic treatment with epidural medications. These complications include catheter dislodgement, infection, injection pain, leakage, and occlusion. Epidural catheter placement utilizing subcutaneous injection port impla...

OBJECTIVES To establish the incidence and predictive factors of enterotomy made during adhesiolysis in abdominal wall repair and to assess the impact of enterotomies and long-lasting adhesiolysis on postoperative morbidity such as sepsis, wound infection, abdominal complications and pneumonia, and socioeconomic costs. BACKGROUND Adhesions frequently complicate surgical repair of abdominal wal...