Health Center - Reproductive and Pelvic Health
No matter your age, the health of your reproductive and urinary organs—your pelvic organs—is important. If something goes wrong "down there," it affects your overall health and quality of life. Get answers to all of your most pressing questions and put an end to embarrassing symptoms.
Surgical Adhesions from Gynecologic Surgery
- Using certain sutures found to be less likely to cause adhesions.
- Administering medications to reduce inflammation.
- Creating barriers between damaged tissues so they don't stick. Today there are several approved devices, liquids, gels, films and other substances surgeons can use as "adhesion barriers." Some have been found to result in adhesions rates at 40 percent or more lower compared to surgeries not using any barrier.
- Closing the peritoneum after a cesarean section. Several studies find this significantly reduces the risk of adhesions during subsequent cesareans.
Minimizing risks for adhesions is the best course since the only way to treat adhesions is to surgically remove them during a procedure called adhesiolysis. Ironically, since the procedure itself damages the peritoneum, it can cause even more adhesions. Plus, adhesions often reform after adhesiolysis.
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