Elective Adhesiolysis vs. a Wait-and-see Policy to Prevent Recurrences After Conservative Treatment of Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction

Inclusion Criteria

• •Adult patients aged 18 years and older who have recently recovered from aSBO by small bowel obstruction managed by conservative treatment.
• •Patients who have previously been operated (high a prior risk of adhesions) are required to have no signs of other causes of bowel obstruction on imaging studies (CT-scan).
• •Patients with no previous operation in history (low a prior risk of adhesions) are required to have typical signs for aSBO on imaging studies (abrupt change of bowel calibre, closed loop, or signs of torsion on vessels in the mesentery on CT-scan).