Reoperative Abdominal Surgery

Reoperation is one of surgery’s greatest challenges. This book provides a practical reference on how to prevent, identify and treat all abdominal complications. Organised primarily by body system Reoperative Abdominal Surgery covers the spectrum of conditions and complications faced by the general surgeon. Separate chapters also cover safety issues, and specific issues related to diagnosis, surgical technique and patient presentation.

Combining the expertise and advice of leading international surgeons the book offers a clinical instructive manual for trainee and practising surgeons.

• Focus on abdominal surgery the key province of the general surgeon
• Expert guidance on the prevention, identification and management of post-operative complications
• Key reference on difficult surgical area for residents and young surgeons
• Experience and advice from best surgeons around the world
• Covers entire spectrum of reoperative abdominal surgery

Preface
Contributors
Chapter 1 - Orientation to reoperative surgery with an emphasis on communication and safety
Chapter 2 - The ethical legal implications of reoperative surgery
Chapter 3 - The broad view of reoperative surgery
Chapter 4 - Anesthetic considerations
Chapter 5 - Reoperative surgery for abdominal wall infection and intraabdominal abscess
Chapter 6 - The modern approach to the open abdomen and abdominal compartment syndrome
Chapter 7 - Laparoscopic reoperative surgery after open and laparoscopic abdominal operations
Chapter 8 - The preferred resuscitation for hemorrhage in the immediate postoperative period
Chapter 9 - Reoperative approach after abdominal trauma and damage control procedures
Chapter 10 - Urgent reoperative vascular surgery
Chapter 11 - Postoperative anastomotic leak, entero-cutaneous and entero-atmospheric fistula
Chapter 12 - Reoperation for open and laparoscopic groin hernia
Chapter 13 - Reoperation for recurrent and complex ventral or incisional hernia (open and laparoscopic)
Chapter 14 - Reoperative bariatric surgery
Chapter 15 - Reoperations for pancreatic surgery complications
Chapter 16 - Reoperative liver surgery
Chapter 17 - Reoperations for complications of biliary tract surgery
Chapter 18 - Reoperations after abdominal organ transplants
Chapter 19 - Reoperative surgery for chronic inflammatory bowel disease
Chapter 20 - Reoperative management of acute and chronic stoma complications (colon and small bowel)
Chapter 21 - Surgical management of C. difficile colitis
Chapter 22 - Reoperative abdominal surgery for chronic vascular events
Chapter 23 - Surgery for recurrent small bowel obstruction
Chapter 24 - The surgical approach to complications (acute and chronic) of radiation injury and chemotherapy
Chapter 25 - The approach to reoperations in the geriatric population

Solly Mizrahi MD FACS
Professor and Chairman, Department of General Surgery, Soroka Medical Center, Ben-Gurian University of the Negev, Israel

Petachia Reissman MD FACS
Chairman, Department of Surgery, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Hiram C Polk MD
Professor of Surgery, University of Louisville, USA