ObjectiveTo explore the feasibility and safety of the artificial pneumoperitoneum and gastrointestinal contrast CT imaging, and imaging diagnostic value on abdominal wall adhesion to intestine after operation. MethodsThirtynine patients with adhesive intestinal obstruction after operation relieved by conservative therapy were included from January 2008 to November 2009. After the artificial pneumoperitoneum established by injection of gas into abdominal cavity and gastrointestinal comparison by oral administration low concentration of meglucamine diatrizoate, CT scan imaging was performed and the radiographic results were compared with surgical findings. ResultsFour patients refused surgery and discharged, so enterolysis was performed in the remaining patients. The surgical findings were consistent with radiographic results. It was showed by laparoscopic operation that intestinal obstruction caused by the fibrous adhesions and the intestine did not adhere to the abdominal wall in eight patients with fibrous adhesion diagnosed by CT. Of eighteen patients with the abdominal wall septally adhered to the intestinal, the surgical findings showed the intestine and the abdominal wall formed “M”type adhesions and omentum adhesions in sixteen patients underwent open operation, and clear fat space was showed in eight patients and close adhesion was found in another eight patients between the intestine and abdominal wall. Of thirteen patients with the abdominal wall tentiformly adhered to the intestinal, the surgical findings showed the intestine and the abdominal wall formed continuous and tentiform adhesions and omentum adhesions to the intestine in eleven patients. After the followup of 6-18 months (mean 9 months), incomplete intestinal obstruction occurred in one patient and was relieved by conservative treatment. One patient with discontinuous discomfort in abdomen after operation did not receive any treatment. The other patients were cured. ConclusionThe artificial pneumoperitoneum and gastrointestinal contrast CT imaging can accurately show the location, area, and structure composition of the postoperative abdominal wall adhesion to intestine, which is safety, simple, and bly repeatable, and a better imaging method for the diagnosing of abdominal wall adhesion to intestine after operation.
ObjectiveTo study the effect of octreotide on acute adhesive intestinal obstruction． MethodsFifty-two patients with adhesive intestinal obstruction from January 2009 to January 2011 in this hospital were divided into octreotide treatment group (n=28) and routine treatment group (n=24) according to the treatment methods. Apart from routine treatments, octreotide was administrated in the octreotide treatment group while traditional treatment in the routine treatment group．The effectiveness was observed and compared between two groups. ResultsThe cure rate of the octreotide treatment group was significantly higher than that of the routine treatment group (Plt;0.05). The anus exhausting and defecating time was earlier, hospitalization time was shorter, and gastrointestinal decompression of the treatment octreotide group as compared with the routine treatment group (Plt;0.05)． ConclusionConventional therapy combining with intravenous infusion of octreotide in patients with acute adhesive intestinal obstruction can improve the clinical symptoms and success rate of treatment．