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After bowel obstruction surgery, can it reoccur?
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Yes: Every abdominal surgery increase the risk of future obstructions due to scar tissue. That is way we try conservative or non-operative treatment whenever is safe to do so.
Answered 5/14/2017
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Yes: you are freeing up a 'KNOWN' obstruction and then, in a sense, reshuffling the deck. the hope is that another one does not occur of ran other 50 years
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