I have had surgery with Dr. Redan twice now and will be having surgery again in two days. The first surgery was nearly 4 years ago for adhesions, he is a wonderful surgeon. I had no problems with return of pain from adhesions after that surgery. I know he uses Seprafilm as his barrier method for adhesions. I have had to have a subtotal colectomy, ileostomy and now my reversal of ileostomy is scheduled for Thursday of this week with Dr. Redan. Due to all the previous surgeries I had during my lifetime, which is around 12 open ones on my abdomen, my colon stopped working all together and had to come out. I would not have had any other surgeon do this, I trust him more than any other surgeon I have ever had. He is awesome, and he is very nice too. I will let you know how my reversal turns out, as I believe some adhesions have reformed since the colectomy due to it being an open surgery. Good luck to you. Email me if you have any questions.
At Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Fern wrote:
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>Has anyone recently been to him? If so, how did things turn out?
>I am concerned about SprayGel/SprayShield as to it's real effectiveness
>vs. the other fibrin sealants out there. The 2nd issue is it's
>toxicity. I need some verification that there are patients with some
>negative reactions to the substance. I think this is why other sugeons
>are not using these products.
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>Fern Hill
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