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 ...

The presence of this foreign object also contributed to extensive intra-abdominal adhesions, which required surgical intervention.” B’Ivory LaMarr — Lowe’s attorney — filed the lawsuit ...

These effects increase costs for patients and health care systems alike. Abdominal adhesions develop in over 90% of patients after undergoing open abdominal surgery, 66% of patients after ...