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Sílvio Henrique Maia de Almeida1, Ricardo Brandina, Vinicius Dall'Aqua

  • 1Department of Surgery, Discipline of Urology, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Rua Francisco Marcelino da Silva, 270, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil. salmeida@sercomtel.com.br

International Urogynecology Journal
|September 8, 2012
PubMed

We report a case of small-bowel obstruction caused by an internal hernia produced by the presence of an intraperitoneal sling mesh. A woman with a history of multiple abdominal surgeries was referred from another center after a sling procedure. On the fifth day after surgery, she developed small-bowel obstruction. Exploratory laparotomy showed the distal ileum compressed between the visceral peritoneum of the bladder and a loop mesh sling. The segment of ileum was repositioned into the peritoneal cavity and the sling segment was resected. In cases of small-bowel obstructions after a mesh surgery, one must be aware of the possibility of bowel entrapment and that the mere presence of intraperitoneal tape can trigger the obstruction.

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