Intestinal Obstruction Surgery in Lahore

Intestinal obstruction is a serious condition where the bowel becomes blocked and cannot move food or fluid along. Dr. Shehryar Niazi treats these cases with laparoscopic surgery at his clinics in Lahore and Bhakkar.

Blocked bowel, modern approach

Intestinal obstruction, most often from adhesions after previous surgery, sometimes from hernias or tumors, is one of general surgery's classic emergencies. The picture is cramping pain, distension, vomiting and a bowel that has gone silent. Some cases settle with a drip and tube; the rest need surgery to release or remove the cause.

Where the patient's condition allows, Dr. Shehryar Niazi uses the laparoscopic route at Farooq Hospital DHA to divide adhesions through small ports, which matters doubly here because every open operation risks creating the next generation of adhesions.

If you have had surgery before

A history of any abdominal operation, a cesarean included, makes future adhesive obstruction possible for life. Patients who get recurring attacks of cramping and bloating that settle overnight should not normalise them. An elective assessment, with scans reviewed calmly, beats an emergency admission at midnight.

Between attacks is the time to act

Patients who have been admitted more than once for obstruction that settled with a drip live between episodes, eating carefully and hoping. Elective assessment in a calm week reviews the scans, maps the likely adhesions and weighs planned laparoscopic release against waiting. Not everyone needs surgery, but everyone deserves the decision to be made deliberately.

Procedures we perform

Laparoscopic management of intestinal obstruction

Keyhole surgery to clear a blocked bowel and get it working again.

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