Jan 20, 2021 20:54
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Spanish term

Po. Lape

Spanish to English Medical Medical: Health Care abbreviation
I have a hospital report from Mexico.
Under "diagnósticos principales y secundarios"

>> **Po. lape** + adherenciolisis + omentectomia parcial + lavado de la cavidad

Under "resumen de la evolución y estado actual"
>>> Paciente femenino de 50 años. **Po. Lape** la cual ingresa por el servicio de urgencias por dolor abdominal tipo colico ... nausea, vomiting, diarrhea.

Grateful for suggestions.

Discussion

wendy griswold (asker) Jan 21, 2021:
Good points. The text does not match the headings, you're right. Although I think I'm going to translate it as "diagnostics" rather than "diagnosis," your point still stands. I just got another report on the same patient, dated 2 days earlier, indicating that she was post-op for adherenciolisis. Does that make it more likely that when she came to the Emergency unit with abdominal pain she had a Po. Lape for diagnostic purposes? Thanks!
Stuart and Aida Nelson Jan 21, 2021:
I would read it as surgery after a surgery and it is unusual. However, maybe Wendy can give us a bit more of context to see if the patient has had 2 surgeries. One of the sentences is under diagnosis where normally stands what kind of procedures or diseases the patient has/has had.

Proposed translations

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Post-Operative Exploratory Laparotomy

Most likely, PO=Postoperatorio
LAPE= laparotomías exploradoras


Revista Archivos de Salud de Sinaloa - Hospital General de ...www.hgculiacan.com › revistahgc › archivos
laparotomías exploradoras, el 28% fueron no terapéuticas. Conclusiones: ... Distribución porcentual de órgano lesionado en pacientes sometidos a LAPE. Bazo


Post-Operative Exploratory Laparotomy Instructions. Post-Operative Hysteroscopy Instructions. Post-Operative Laparoscopy Instructions.

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Thanks to you too, and glad to be of help!
Peer comment(s):

agree Robert Copeland
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Thank you, Robert :-)
neutral Stuart and Aida Nelson : Would 'post-operative' be a procedure/intervention/surgery after the laparotomy (surgery)? I think the sample sentences refer to the post-operative instructions, not to a post-operative laparotomy.// Sorry Marie see discussion, no space here.
10 hrs
Exactly, I don't know how you can interpret my answer in any other way.
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Status post exploratory laparotomy = Patient had an exploratory laparotomy


I think Po. refers here to Status post. In other words, the patient had an exploratory laparotomy.

It is quite common to translate status post as had or having had, e.g. 50-year-old patient having had exploratory laparotomy....

Status post or S/P refers to a procedure or event, a patient had experienced, underwent, undertook, endured or has sustained prior to the current time. It is most often used to reference past surgeries.

https://www.quora.com/In-medical-terms-what-is-status-post#:...

LAPE= Laparotomía exploradora

http://sedom.es/diccionario/

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Exploratory laparotomy is surgery to open up the belly area (abdomen). This surgery is done to find the cause of problems (such as belly pain or bleeding) that testing could not diagnose.

https://www.saintlukeskc.org/health-library/exploratory-lapa...

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It is also quite common just to use S/P

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El páncreas, vesícula biliar y resto del intestino delgado sin alteraciones. Con estos hallazgos se integraron los siguientes diagnósticos:

- Status post laparotomía exploradora y colectomía total

http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S...



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Porcentaje de grasa corporal y área muscular braquial disponible del paciente adulto post-laparotomia exploradora que recibió fórmula enteral via oral o nutrición parenteral periférica en el Antiguo Hospital Civil de Guadalajara

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariana-orellana-haro-a56b53121/...
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