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.

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 ...

Surgical adhesions - common, sometimes life-threatening complications that arise after open or laparoscopic abdominal surgery - can be prevented in mice and pigs by a gel impregnated with a ...