Up to 90% of abdominal surgeries result in adhesions — abnormal scarring that ties together organs and tissues. A gel developed at Stanford Medicine prevented adhesions in mice and pigs.

A group of international experts convened in Washington, D.C., in September 2024 for the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Surgical Adhesions Improvement Project Summit to explore the challenges of ...

Infertility-causing adhesions may form in the following locations ... hence increasing its risk of being wasted in the abdominal cavity; and Clinically, we have observed that site-specific ...

An abdominal hernia involves an internal organ ... Complications in hernioplasties might involve foreign body reactions and fibrotic adhesion between the mesh and viscera, with high rates of ...