Some interesting statistics...

From: Sherry Marie (SMGNWV@aol.com)
Thu Jul 6 07:23:52 2000


Approximately 3 million people who underwent open gynecologic or general abdominal surgery in the US in 1995. Between 10 and 15 percent of those people will undergo second procedures to remove adhesions. According too a 1993 study, $1.2 billion were spent in the US in 1988 to remove abdominal adhesions. Up to 93% of abdominal surgery patients have adhesions due to previous surgery. Abdominal adhesions are the predominate cause of small bowel obstruction, obstruction due to adhesion reformation occurred in 11 to 21% of cases. Adhesion formation is found at second look in 55 to 100% of patients undergoing gynecological surgery. Pelvic adhesions are associated with infertility in 15 to 20% of cases. Postoperative adhesions can lead to chronic pelvic pain. Over 446,000 procedures were performed in the US to lyse abdominopelvic adhesions in 1993. Sounds like a major problem that needs addressed to me!!! Sherry Marie

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