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chronic pain caused by post-surgical adhesions.
For information about adhesions research conducted
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Sample photos and videos are listed by section below.
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to adhesions, please
see here.
For information about adhesion prevention products click here.
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Where possible we have tried to find review articles
from the peer-reviewed medical literature. Where possible,
please follow link to the “Free Article”
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for a listing of articles on adhesions
in the last year in the medical literature.
Abdominal & Pelvic Adhesions
Overviews
- Adhesions:
What Are They and How Can They Be Prevented? – Information
form the American Society for Reproductive Medicine
- Abdominal
Adhesions – information provided
by the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse
- Intra-abdominal
adhesions: definition, origin, significance
in surgical practice, and treatment options.
- Adhesions – an overview from the National Library
of Medicine. En Espanol: Adherencias - Biblioteca Nacional
de Medicina de EE.UU
- Adhesions – another overview form the National
Library of Medicine – with good links
- Adhesions - An Overview by Dr. Dan Martin
- The
inpatient burden of abdominal and gynecological adhesiolysis
in the US. Analysis of 2005 statistics
reveals inpatient expenditures of $2.3billion. See
our own analysis of the same numbers which reveals
even higher costs.
- Clinical
implications of postsurgical adhesions,
authored by IAS Advisor, Dr. Michael Diamond.
- Prevention of adhesions in gynaecological endoscopy
- Adhesion prevention and treatment using traditional/
alternative methods
- Do Men Get Adhesions, an informative look by David
Wiseman PhD, MRPharmS, Founder, International Adhesions
Society
Photos
- For a compendium from a Google search of photographs
of adhesions, click
here.
- For a compendium of photographs from a Google search
of adhesions being cut (adhesiolysis), click
here.
- Adhesions after appendectomy
- Adhesions involving the uterus, bowel ovaries and
Fallopian tubes
- Adhesions of the large and small bowel and omentum
- Gastrointestinal Pathology: Adhesion between loops
of small intestine
Videos
- Adhesions - General Information
- Adhesions and the female organs
- Bowel and peritubal adhesions
- Adhesions in the pelvis
Adhesions and Infertility
- INFERTILITY: AN OVERVIEW from ASRM
- InterNational Council
on Infertility Information Dissemination (INCIID) is a nonprofit organization
that helps individuals and couples explore their family-building
options. INCIID provides current information and immediate
support regarding the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
of infertility and pregnancy loss, and offers guidance
to those considering adoption or childfree lifestyles.
Adhesions, ARD and CAPPS
- Disorders of adhesions or adhesion-related disorder:
monolithic entities or part of something bigger--CAPPS?
This is the landmark
paper produced as a result of
IAS research. Click
here for the PubMed abstract and
here for a lay summary.
- Click here for our page with a
more detailed discussion of ARD, CAPPS and all of the
component conditions.
Adhesions – Medicolegal Aspects
- Fusilier
v. Dauterive – Malpractice case involving
adhesions
- Medico-legal
consequences of post-operative intra-abdominal adhesions 2009 review authored by IAS advisor, Professor
Harold Ellis, CBE.
- Medicolegal
consequences of postoperative intra-abdominal adhesions.
2001 review authored by IAS advisor, Professor
Harold Ellis, CBE.
- Adhesions and Informed Consent. Read
here about the
IAS’ work on the information provided to patients
about adhesions and adhesion barriers.
Adhesions – Regulatory Aspects
- FDA Panel Meeting to discuss the FDA Guidance Document
on Devices for Surgical Adhesions, January 25, 2000.
See
here for the transcript as well as
here for Dr. Wiseman’s presentation on behalf of the IAS
to the Panel.
- FDA
Guidance for Resorbable Adhesion Barrier Devices
for Use in Abdominal and/or Pelvic Surgery; Guidance
for Industry, June 18, 2002.
- European Commission MEDICAL DEVICES: Guidance document
- ADEPT PMA P050011
- ADEPT – Summary of FDA Panel Meeting March
2006 Summary and transcript – also
here.
- INTERCEED PMA 880047
- INTERGEL PMA 990015
-
INTERGEL – Documents at FDA - Summary of
Safety and Effectiveness
- INTERGEL Summary Panel Minutes January 12 2000
- INTERGEL – Dispute Resolution Panel Meeting
September 6 2011 – Roster of documents
- INTERGEL – FDA
announcement regarding withdrawal, April 16, 2003
- OXIPLEX – FDA Executive Summary of
2008 Panel meeting
- REPEL CV – Summary of Safety and Effectiveness
- Seprafilm PMA 950034
Adhesions – Treatment and Adhesiolysis
- Adhesion prevention products – see our page
here
- Abdominal
adhesion prevention: still a sticky subject?
- Adhesions and adhesiolysis: the role of laparoscopy
- Management and prevention of pelvic adhesions
- Prevention of peritoneal adhesions: A promising role
for gene therapy
- The effect of oral honey and pollen on postoperative
intraabdominal adhesions
Videos
- Adhesiolysis of Bowel from Right Pelvic Sidewall
- Laparoscopic
Lysis of Abdominal Adhesions: an animated
video describing the surgical procedure of laparoscopic
adhesiolysis
- Laparoscopy
Adhesiolysis Video from an Indian surgeon,
Dr. Naidu
- Adhesiolysis by robotic surgery
- Placement
of INTERCEED by laparoscopy
- Myomectomy – removal of uterine fibroids – by
laparotomy with placement of Seprafilm
- Placement of Sprayshield
Adhesions and Bowel Obstruction
- Adhesive
small bowel obstruction in children and adolescents: operative utilization and factors associated
with bowel loss.
- Has
the use of anti-adhesion barriers affected the national
rate of bowel obstruction? This work documents
the use of adhesion barriers using the ICD9
codes that the IAS helped to establish for the application of
an adhesion barrier. Another example of IAS action
yielding fruit!!
- Adhesive
small bowel obstruction: epidemiology, biology
and prevention
- Intestinal obstruction
- A
review of the management of small bowel obstruction. Members of the Surgical and Clinical Adhesions Research
Study (SCAR). Authored by IAS Advisor, Professor Harold
Ellis, CBE.
- Intestinal
obstruction: still a lethal clinical entity.
- Bologna
Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Adhesive
Small Bowel Obstruction (ASBO): 2010 Evidence-Based
Guidelines of the World Society of Emergency Surgery.
Photos
- Small bowel obstruction
- Strangulated small bowel obstruction
- An internal hernia in which a loop of bowel and mesentery
has been caught, which is one complication of adhesions
from a previous surgery
Videos
- CT of Small Bowel Obstruction
Breast Implant Scarring (Capsular Contracture)
- Breast
implants, common complications, and concurrent
breast disease
- Correction
of capsular contracture and breast implant
malposition
- Fibrin
Sealant Demonstrates Reduced Complications From Breast
Cancer Surgery. Phase ll clinical trials...October
15,1997. Fibrin Sealants are tissue adhesives used
during surgical procedures for hemostasis and of tissues.
Fibrin sealants offer three primary benefits related
to wound healing: speed, less scarring, and reduced
leakage and blood loss.
Adhesions and C Section
- Do adhesions at repeat cesarean delay delivery of
the newborn?
- Peritoneal
adhesion prevention at cesarean section: an analysis
of the effectiveness of an absorbable adhesion
barrier. This paper shows the effect of INTERCEED on
adhesions from C section.
Cardiac
- A review of the complications caused by adhesions
in cardiac surgery
Ear
- Insertion of middle-ear Silastic sheeting during
tympanoplasty: hearing outcomes
Eye
- Eye muscle surgery
- Amniotic membrane transplantation for restrictive
strabismus
Hand
- An
overview of adhesions after hand surgery and methods
to remove them (tenolysis)
Hip
- Groin pain after open hip surgery: the role of intraarticular
adhesions
Hysterectomy and Adhesions
Please see our page on hysterectomy here.
Intrauterine Adhesions (Asherman’s Syndrome)
Please see our page on Asherman’s Syndrome here
Knee
- How to treat the stiff total knee arthroplasty?
Labial Adhesions
- Labial Adhesions, a parents guide
Lung, Pulmonary Adhesions
Photos
- Pulmonary
Pathology: repeated episodes of inflammation
can result in scarring which has resulted in fibrous
adhesions between the lobes of the lung.
Peritoneal Sclerosis, Sclerosing Encapsulating
Peritonitis (Common after peritoneal dialysis)
- Pathogenesis and treatment of encapsulating peritoneal
sclerosis
Shoulder, Adhesive Capsulitis, Frozen Shoulder
- Rotator cuff lesions with shoulder stiffness
- Effectiveness of subacromial anti-adhesive agent
injection after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair
Sinus Surgery
- Prevention of adhesion after endoscopic sinus surgery
Spine/ Arachnoiditis
- Effectiveness of spinal endoscopic adhesiolysis in
post lumbar surgery syndrome
- Systematic review of percutaneous adhesiolysis and
management of chronic low back pain in post lumbar
surgery syndrome
- Systematic review of effectiveness and complications
of adhesiolysis in the management of chronic spinal
pain
- THE
ADHESIVE ARACHNOIDITIS SYNDROME by Dr Sarah
Smith MB BS
- Burton Report on Adhesive Arachnoiditis
- Circle of Friends
with Arachnoiditis
- Arachnoiditis
Society for Awareness and Prevention (ASAP)
Click
here for video
Other Related or Possibly Related Conditions
- Fitz-Hugh-Curtis (FHC) Syndrome. See our
page on FHC here
- Lichen sclerosus. See our page here
SYNECHION: A one-stop place to learn what pharmaceutical
companies are doing in the field of research to find
an adhesion barrier that will provide protection to
surgical patients from post-surgical adhesions.
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