Abstract
Intraabdominal adhesions continue to pose a potentially serious postoperative clinical problem. Reported here is an experiment designed to study any effect that balanced Ringer's lactate (RL) solution may have on intraabdominal adhesion formation. Surgical trauma was induced in mice by controlled gauze abrasion of one side of the abdominal wall; the opposite side was used as a control. RL irrigation was compared with no irrigation. Adhesions were scored on the basis of incidence (%) and severity (on a 0-10 scale). The abraded right peritoneum exhibited 100% adhesions for both the RL group and the nonirrigated group. However, on the side that was not abraded, the nonirrigated group showed only 30% incidence of adhesions and 1.7 +/- 3.3 severity as compared with 100% adhesions and 7.7 +/- 2.2 severity for the RL group. These results suggest the need for further studies to establish the extent to which irrigation with solutions such as Ringer's lactate or saline may enhance formation of postoperative adhesions.
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