Unlabelled: Tuberculosis is one of the earliest diseases affecting the mankind. Abdominal tuberculosis constitutes a common public health issue in developing countries like ours. Gastrointestinal tuberculosis often involves the ileocecal region.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Adhesions following surgery represent a major unsolved problem. They occur after 50% to 100% of all surgical interventions in the abdomen and may complicate the work of the surgeon considerably. Peritoneal adhesions are pathological bands that typically form between the omentum, the small and large bowels, the abdominal wall, and other intra-abdominal organs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChirurgia (Bucur)
June 2016
Background: Treatment of a number of complications that occur after abdominal surgeries may require that Urgent Relaparotomy (UR), the life-saving and obligatory operations, are performed. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the reasons for performing URs, their outcomes and factors that affect mortality.
Methods: Observational, Prospective Study.