Indications for relaparotomy
Krivitskiĭ, D.I.; Shuliarenko, V.A.; Babin, I.A.
Klinicheskaia Khirurgiia 1: 18-21
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2130 PMID: 2338775 Document Number: 352231
From 1980 to 1987, 10,446 patients were operated on. In 152 patients, the necessity of a repeated operative intervention arose. In 106 patients the emergency, in 42--delayed, and in 4--elective relaparotomies were performed. There were the following indications for relaparotomy: diffuse and circumscribed peritonitis (78 patients), ileus (46), eventration (11), hemorrhage (12), others (5). Diagnosis of postoperative complications requiring relaparotomy is difficult. The postoperative lethality was 26%.