Barnaul doctors rescued a patient with complications due to a 17-year spiral

In the emergency room of the hospital in an ambulance brought a woman in serious condition. She experienced severe lower abdominal pain, nausea and weakness, and she also had a high fever.

Surgeons diagnosed the patient with spilled peritonitis. It's a severe, diffuse inflammation of the peritoneum. Moreover, the disease is not independent, it is a consequence of acute surgical pathologies, injuries or postoperative complications. Without emergency treatment, peritonitis quickly leads to sepsis and multiple organ failure. This required immediate decisions from experts.

The versatility of the hospital hospital made it possible to urgently call an obstetrician-gynecologist to help surgeons. As it turned out, the intrauterine device installed 17 years ago led to serious consequences.

It should be noted that the standard service life of such contraceptives is no more than five years. And for 17 years in the organs of the woman developed severe inflammation - endometritis, which later grew into spilled peritonitis.

Often in such situations resort to abdominal surgery with a large incision of the anterior abdominal wall. However, the gynecologist assessed all the risks and went on a jewelry step: she performed the intervention endoscopically - through neat small punctures.

The surgical intervention was successful. Today, the woman is home and can return to her normal life.

“The intrauterine device is a reliable method of contraception, but only with strict control over the duration of its use. Please do not postpone scheduled visits to the gynecologist. Your health and life are invaluable, the doctors said.

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