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- Title
Advancing complex hepato‐pancreato‐biliary surgery in Uganda: Challenges and outcomes.
- Authors
Michael, Okello; Darshit, Dave; Mary, Kiconco; Mutekoba, Umar; Timothy, Mugabi; Francis, Baseka Xavier; Denis, Kakaire; Edward, Kyomugisha; Machyo, Okuku Fred; Henry, Ddungu; William, Buwembo; Ponsiano, Ocama
- Abstract
Introduction: Uganda has until recently mostly referred patients for complex hepato‐pancreato‐biliary (HPB) surgery abroad due to lack of local expertize. We report indications and a spectrum of surgeries performed in the first 4 years following the establishment of a routine HPB service at Lubaga Hospital (LH), Kampala, Uganda. We also detailed the challenges encountered in setting up this service. Methods: Demographic, clinical parameters, surgery indications, procedures performed, and outcomes of consecutive patients that underwent HPB surgeries at LH from December 2018 to October 2022 were analyzed. Results: Majority were females 72 (57.6%) with a median age of 50 (6–88) years. Forty‐one (32.8%) underwent surgery on the pancreas (PS), 34 (27.2%) on the liver (LS), and 50 (40.0%) on the bile ducts (CBS). The most common symptom was abdominal pain. Benign disease was present in 37 patients (29.6%) while 88 (70.4%) had malignancy. A total of 34 patients (27.2%) had unresectable pancreatic head cancer and distal cholangiocarcinoma missed at preoperative imaging and discovered intraoperatively thus underwent palliative hepaticojejunostomy. Only 34 (27.2%) patients received postoperative ICU care. In‐hospital mortality for this heterogenous group of patients was 6 (4.8%) for PS, 3 (2.4%) for LS, and 8 (6.4%) for CBS. Conclusion: Despite many challenges like limited access to ERCP accessories, lack of endoscopic ultrasound scans and PET–CT scans in the whole country, late presentation, and low quality imaging especially in preoperative determination of resectability of hepato‐pancreato‐biliary cancers, we managed to establish a functional HPB service. Patient results achieved were good in spite of these limitations.
- Subjects
UGANDA; KAMPALA (Uganda); PANCREATIC cancer; POSITRON emission tomography computed tomography; PANCREATIC surgery; ENDOSCOPIC ultrasonography; BILE ducts; PANCREATECTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC surgery
- Publication
World Journal of Surgery, 2024, Vol 48, Issue 4, p924
- ISSN
0364-2313
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/wjs.12097