Posted Saturday, January 22, 2005 @ 05:01 AM
Behind our concept of offering the 3rd look laparoscopy for minimal cost is a true idealism, in the end to improve, if not to cure adhesion sufferers.
As I wrote here:http://www.endogynserver.com/cgi-bin/210/cutecast.pl?session=Wtn4YkmGODKiQsKXpEhetdplBH&forum=2&thread=275
In short: a surgeon sees an improvement of the adhesion score as a success, whereas the patient often sees an improvement of symptoms or a complete disappearance of symptoms as a success!
After surgery some adhesions may return, the surgeon might measure the reduction of adhesions as an improvement while the patient says s(h)e has pain and therefore concludes the adhesions are back!
In some cases there may be a huge improvement of adhesions (by 99%), but some small adhesions (see picture below) might have formed somewhere and cause extreme pain.
Small adhesions can even cause bowel obstructions (briden ileus)!
Here you see how important it is to have the back-door opportunity of a 3rd-look laparoscopy. An minimal adhesion has formed to the abdominal wall.
After we take this adhesion down, the patient might become pain free and the risk of adhesion reformation at this small amount of filmy adhesions is extremely low.
And here are all the other surgical areas of our gasless adhesiolysis with Spraygel on this patient 4 months ago:
beautifully healed peritoneum with small scar tissue formation (white)...
but no adhesions ... a very good result, compared to the initial adhesions status.
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Daniel Kruschinski, MD
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