EVALUATION OF POST OPERATIVE PERITONEAL LAVAGE TO PREVENT RECURRENT ADHESIVE INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION | ||
| Zagazig University Medical Journal | ||
| Article 11, Volume 20, Issue 6, November 2017, Pages 1-7 PDF (928.4 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/zumj.2017.4451 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mostafa El Saady; Khaled Metwally; Mohamed Hefny; Waleed El Hady | ||
| General Surgery department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of postoperative peritoneal lavage (PPL) in prevention of recurrent Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction (ASBO).Patients and methods: a total of 36 patients were included in this study. All of these patients suffered from ASBO. They were randomized into two groups. Group I (18 patients) were treated with adhesiolysis followed by PPL and group II (18 patients) were treated with adhesiolysis alone . Patients were followed up for an average period of 15 months to detect the incidence of recurrent ASBO. Results: :In group1 only one (5.6%) patient had an attack of ASBO which responded to conservative management and did not need redo operation while in group II seven (38.9%) patients developed a recurrent episode of ASBO four of them(22.2%)needed surgical re exploration. So the rate of surgical reoperation in group 1 was zero in comparison to group 2 which was( 16.6%). Conclusion: PPL is a new hope for prevention of recurrent ASBO that achieved statistically significant reduction in the recurrence rate and surgical redo. | ||
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