Table 5. Treatment of recurrent SBO episodes.

SBO, short/small bowel obstruction; p-value, probability value; Rx, treatment; NA, not available

Paper	SBO treatment group	Recurrence	Recurrence treated conservatively (%)	Recurrence treated operatively (%)	p-Value
Duron et al. [13]	Operative Rx	33	22 (66.7)	11 (33.3)	NA
Lorentzen et al. [16]	Operative Rx	58	15 (26)	43 (74)	NA
Meier et al. [10]	Operative Rx	19	9 (47.4)	10 (52.6)	>0.05
	Non-operative Rx	25	19 (76)	6 (24)
Nakamura et al. [14]	Open surgery	9	1 (11.1)	8 (88.9)	0.038
	Laparoscopic	3	0 (0)	3 (100)
Yao et al. [15]	Open surgery	4	4 (100)	0 (0)	0.017
	Laparoscopic	6	2 (33.3)	4 (66.7)
Catena et al. [11]	Operative Rx with icodextrin	2	1 (50)	1 (50)	>0.05
	Operative Rx without icodextrin	10	7 (70)	3 (30)
Sakari et al. [18]	Operative Rx for band adhesions	33	20 (60.6)	13 (39.4)	0.509
	Operative Rx for diffuse adhesions	39	26 (66.7)	13 (33.3)
Total	Operative Rx	216	107 (49.5)	109 (50.5)
	Non-operative Rx	25	19 (76)	6 (24)