Ayman Refaat1, Ahmed EL-Marakby, Ahmed Farghaly2, Hossam ELShamaa3, Mohamed Ibrahim4, Mohamed Hamed Salem5
Ahmed Gamal Eldin Fouad¹, Ahmed Faraghaly¹, Ahmed Elmarakby¹, Fatma Zeinhom²
1Amr Saleh El Bahaey, 2Ahmed Balboula
Fouad S. Fouad1 and Abdelrahman Mohamed2
1Mohamed Salama, 1Heba G.M. Mahmoud, 2Marwa Nabil, 1Mohamed Hassan
1Hebatallah G.M. Mahmoud, 1Mohamed Salama, 1John Wahib, 2Salem Eid, 1Omaya Nassar
Wael Ahmed Ghanem, Ahmed Bassiouny Radwan
Wael Ghanem
Sherif M. Mokhtar1 , Shady Elghazaly Harb1 , Hossam Hussein2 ,Shady Nabil Mashhour3
Shady Elghazaly Harb, Sherif M. Mokhtar, Sameh Mikhail
Osama G. Fahmy, Osama A. Radwan & Mohamed I. Monier
Ayman El Samadoni, Haitham A. Eldmarany and Amr El Bahaey
Salah M. Raslan MD and Hany M. Elbarbary MD, FRCS, FACS
Ayman El Samadoni1 , Haitham A.Eldmarany2
Hamdy A. Elhady
Hassan A. Abdallah1, Abd-El-Aal A. Saleem1, Osama A. AbdulRaheem1, Mohamed Yousef A2
Maged Rihan, MD, MRCS Mohamed M.Raslan ,MD
Mohamed Abd El-Monem Abd El-Salam Rizk, MD
Sherif Essam Tawfik MD, Mohamed Abd El-Monem Abd El-Salam Rizk MD, Abd elrahman Mohamed MD
Wael A Jumuah, MD; Yasser El Ghamrini, MD; Karim Sabry Abdel Samee, MD, MRCS (Ed)
Ahmed Sayed1,2, Hussein Elwan1 , Mostafa Elshal2, Ahmed Taha1,2
Laparoscopic Approach in Adhesive Acute Small Intestinal Obstruction
Open adhesiolysis through a midline incision was considered to be the standard approach in treating
patients with acute adhesive intestinal obstruction. The aim of this study is to evaluate the operative results
of the laparoscopic approach in these patients. The study started From December 2013 to June 2016 and
included 24 patients who had laparoscopic explorations for acute small intestinal obstruction due to
adhesions in Kasr Al Ainy cairo university hospital and Hai Aljameaa hospital (private hospital in Jeddah,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). These patients were diagnosed by the clinical history, physical examination and
imaging studies (X-ray and abdominal CT scan with oral [in cases of partial obstruction] and IV contrast).
Patients with marked abdominal distension, peritonitis and/ or severe sepsis were excluded. They were 15
men and 9 women, with a mean age of 52.8±15.7 (25–69). Five patients (20.8%) were converted to open
surgery. The surgical outcomes included the operative time, oral intake start day, length of hospital stay
and wound complications in the first thirty days. There was a significant difference in favor of laparoscopy
in these outcomes between the patients who were managed laparoscopically as compared with patients
initially managed laparoscopically but later converted to open surgery. It is concluded that the
laparoscopic management is a safe and useful approach in treating patients with acute adhesive small
intestinal obstruction.
Keywords: Acute intestinal obstruction, Laparoscopy, Adhesiolysis.