Symptoms of intestinal obstruction after gastric cancer surgery?

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After early gastric cancer surgery, patients should also pay attention to the recurrence of the disease. Clinical data show that 59% of patients will relapse after early gastric cancer surgery. As we all know, metastasis is the main cause of cancer recurrence. The metastasis of cancer cells is directly related to the survival time of patients with advanced gastric cancer. What about the symptoms of intestinal obstruction after gastric cancer surgery? Here is a detailed introduction.

Symptoms of intestinal obstruction after gastric cancer surgery?

Anastomotic leakage: this kind of postoperative complication is a common but serious complication after gastric cancer surgery. However, patients with gastric cancer should not panic too much. Due to the application of stapler and the improvement of surgical skills in recent years, the incidence of anastomotic leakage has declined. The main causes of this complication are tissue edema, malnutrition and lack of anastomotic technique. Generally speaking, anastomotic leakage occurred in 2-3 days after operation is mostly caused by surgical technique; The occurrence of 7-9 days is often caused by other comprehensive factors.

Intestinal obstruction: the postoperative complications of gastric cancer in patients with mild, more complex and diverse, mainly including functional intestinal obstruction and mechanical intestinal obstruction. Most of the cases occurred about 10 days after the operation of gastric cancer were functional intestinal obstruction, but it was not absolute.

Gastric bleeding: this postoperative complication of gastric cancer is one of the most common postoperative complications, most of which are anastomotic bleeding. The main reason for the measures is that the blood vessels can not be completely closed when the gastric wall is sutured, especially when the full-thickness suture is too shallow or not tight, sometimes the bleeding of gastric wall blood vessels into the mucosa should not be found. In recent years, some inferior staplers have closed or anastomosed the gastric wall during operation, but delayed bleeding can still occur. In addition, stress ulcer is also a common cause of postoperative gastric bleeding. The bleeding can be diffuse, the blood color is often brown or dark red, usually lasting for 3-5 days.

matters needing attention

After the operation, we should emphasize the reasonable collocation and appropriate food therapy measures, which can recover the physical strength of patients as soon as possible and increase the disease resistance ability of patients.