--- a +++ b/processing/MACCROBAT/25024632.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +A 29-year-old primipara presented with complaints of persistent, severe right -sided upper abdominal pain during deep inspiration, physical exercise and on local pressure. +These complaints had developed gradually after giving birth one year earlier. +This pregnancy had been complicated by HELLP syndrome with a subcapsular liver hematoma sized 20 cm × 5 cm, which had resolved spontaneously. +At current presentation, liver function tests were normal. +She assured having never experienced signs suggestive of sexually transmitted diseases or pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). +She had never undergone intra-abdominal interventions. +An upper-abdominal magnetic resonance imaging revealed a density between liver and diaphragm at the site of the former subcapsular hematoma, suspect of perihepatic adhesions (Figure 1). +She was referred to the hepatobiliary surgeon, who performed a laparoscopy and confirmed the presence of a thick adhesion between liver segment V/VIII and the diaphragm (Figure 2). +Adhesiolysis was performed in the same session by monopolar diathermia and sharp dissection, followed by the instillation of 1.5 L Adept (4% icodextrin solution) into the peritoneal cavity to prevent the formation of new adhesions. +On follow-up until three years post-surgery, she was free of symptoms.