Category: Adhesions
What are adhesions?
Adhesions are one of the best hidden secrets or enigmas of modern medicine The word adhere literally means to stick or to bind together. When tissue that is normally not connected grows together, it is called an adhesion. It is also commonly referred to as scar tissue. Adhesions are fibrous tissues (scar tissue) that cause [...]
How common do adhesions cause problems?
Adhesions are a widespread problem and develop following any type of pelvic or abdominal surgery. The rate of adhesion formation after surgery is surprising given the relative lack of knowledge about adhesions among doctors and patients alike. Adhesions have been shown to develop in up to 93% of surgical patients. This number increased in patients with major and multiple procedures respectively. Similarly, some studies found that 93% of patients who had undergone at least one previous abdominal operation had adhesions, compared with only 10.4% of patients who had never had a previous abdominal operation. The incidence of adhesions has increased with the rise in gynaecological procedures. It has been shown that between 60 to 90 % of women suffer post operative adhesions following major gynaecological surgery
How do adhesions happen?
Rarely adhesions are present from birth. Adhesions commonly form in the abdominal-pelvic cavity as a result of inflammation, injury or following surgery – as part of the body’s completely natural and normal healing process. Usually they occur as part of the healing that takes place after surgery, particularly abdominal surgery. Adhesions can also form after inflammation in the abdomen or pelvis. Adhesions develop as the body attempts to repair itself. This normal response can occur after surgery, infection, trauma, or radiation. Repair cells within the body cannot tell the difference between one organ and another. If an organ undergoes repair and comes into contact with another part of itself, or another organ, scar tissue may form to connect the 2 surfaces.
What is the impact of adhesions on patients and surgeons?
The Impact of Adhesions on Patients:
•Adhesive Disease accounts for 49-74% of small bowel obstructions.
•Adhesive Disease accounts for 15-20% of infertility cases.
•Adhesive Disease accounts for 20-50% of chronic pelvic pain cases.
•Reduced quality of life.
•Loss of work days and productivity
•Increased risk, complexity and complications during subsequent surgery.
•One study showed a 19% rate of adhesion-related bowel perforation during subsequent/secondary operations.
•Bowel perforations occur even more frequently (33%) during surgery for SBO.
•Patients with adhesion-related perforations had significantly higher postoperative complications (leaks, wound infections, hemorrhages and length of stay)
Adhesions surgery in Germany?
Why to have Adhesion surgery in Germany ?
Prepared by Roselyn Macdonald, roselyn99@hotmail.com, after having surgery with Dr Kruschinski in late October, 2004.
As you read this information, there are three big advantages that Dr Kruschinski offers any adhesions patient, and which to my knowledge nobody else can, or will, offer. These are precisely and exactly WHY you SHOULD go to Dr K for your surgery and why it is very likely not only to get rid of your pain(s) but also to be the last surgery you’ll ever need for adhesions. As a patient myself who has had 18 years of adhesions and some 5 laparotomies (bad cut from the belly button straight down all the way each time) and some 4 or so laparoscopies with gas, I can tell you this truly. Your post operative pain will be nothing at all like previous surgeries because the spray gel keeps all cut surfaces sliding happily past each other. No ripping and tearing pain such as I had previously thought was ordinary and common (which of course it is for any of you who have not had Dr K’s wonderful work done on you).
The hospital where you will have the surgery and initial recovery stay is a first class hosp
