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Surgery care

Pick your operation — what to do before, what after, what to eat, what the medicines do, and when to go back.

Nothing matched that name. The 'Any other surgery' page below applies after any operation.
Abdominal surgery
Gallbladder removalCholecystectomy — usually keyhole, through four small cuts→ Appendix removalUsually an emergency — there is no time to prepare→ Hernia repairUsually with a mesh — groin, navel or abdominal wall→ Piles and fistula surgeryPiles, fissure or fistula — where passing stool is the main worry→
Women's surgery
Caesarean sectionRecovering from major abdominal surgery while looking after a newborn→ HysterectomyThrough the abdomen, the vagina or keyhole — recovery differs in each→ Fibroid removalMyomectomy — taking out the fibroid and keeping the uterus→ Breast lump surgeryRemoving a lump, or taking a sample for testing→
Eye, nose, throat & teeth
Cataract surgeryIndia's commonest operation — half an hour, but the rules afterwards are strict→ Tonsil removalCommonest in children — where keeping fluids up is the real treatment→ Sinus surgery (FESS)Through the nose — where the cleaning afterwards decides the result→ Tooth extractionA wisdom tooth or any other — the first twenty-four hours matter most→
Neck
Thyroid surgeryIn the neck — where both the voice and the calcium need watching→
Urinary tract
Kidney stone surgeryKeyhole, laser or shockwave — and often a stent is left in place→ Prostate surgery (TURP)Through the urinary passage, with no outside cut→ Hydrocele surgeryA small operation for fluid collecting around the testis→
Bones & joints
Knee replacementWhere the operation is half the job and the exercises are the other half→ Hip replacementWhere the rules about sitting and bending matter most in the early weeks→ Fracture surgery — plate or rodFixing a broken bone, and the long weeks that follow→ Knee arthroscopy and ligament surgeryArthroscopy or ACL — small cuts, long rehabilitation→ Spine and disc surgeryWhere sitting, bending and lifting all have to be relearned→
Heart & vessels
Angioplasty and stentWhere stopping the blood-thinning tablet can kill→ Heart bypassMajor surgery — where the breastbone takes months to knit→ Varicose vein surgeryLaser, injection or surgery — afterwards the stockings are the real treatment→
General
Any other surgeryNot on this list — the things that apply after any operation→