[Causes of the appearance of abdominal adhesions after primary aseptic operations on the gastrointestinal tract and the method of their prophylactics]

Abstract

The author describes the phenomenon of infection of the abdominal cavity through the intestinal suture with million of microbes and formulated an original hypothesis of the cause of abdominal adhesions after primary aseptic operations on the gastrointestinal tract according to which the appearance of postoperative abdominal adhesions was due to infection through physically hermetic intestinal suture. As opposed to well known hypotheses, this hypothesis explains all unclear facts of postoperative adhesions. On its basis a simple and effective method of prophylactics of postoperative abdominal adhesions was developed which results in the formation only of adhesions of the omentum with the intestinal suture without abdominal adhesion. The use of the method gave positive results in clinical practice.