Thanks Marla
-----Original Message----- From: Sherry Marie <SMGNWV@aol.com> To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@forum.obgyn.net> Date: Thursday, July 06, 2000 7:27 AM Subject: Some interesting statistics...
>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
>