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- Title
Biliary Complications After Pancreaticoduodenectomy: Skinny Bile Ducts Are Surgeons' Enemies.
- Authors
Duconseil, Pauline; Turrini, Olivier; Ewald, Jacques; Berdah, Stéphane; Moutardier, Vincent; Delpero, Jean-Robert
- Abstract
Background: The aim of this study was to determine the incidence and predisposing factors of biliary complications (BCs) after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) and report our experience in managing these BCs. Pancreatic surgery, particularly PD, has benefited from improvements in operative techniques and postoperative care and is currently safer in terms of mortality. However, the morbidity associated with PD remains high, including frequent complications such as delayed gastric emptying and pancreatic fistulas. Rarer but important BCs are those that manifest as bile leaks (BLs) and biliary strictures (BSs). Methods: Between April 2005 and December 2011, a total of 397 patients underwent PD at two centers. All data were retrospectively studied with respect to age, gender, pancreatic pathology, neoadjuvant treatment, preoperative biliary stenting, intraoperative data, postoperative pancreatic fistula, BL and BS rates, and mortality. The management of BCs was also analyzed. Results: Thirty patients experienced a BC: 13 BLs (3.3 %) and 17 BSs (4.3 %). A thin bile duct (<5 mm), measured during surgery, was the only predisposing factor for developing a BL or a BS. The management of the BLs consisted of surveillance in six patients (46 %), percutaneous drainage of bilioma in four patients (31 %), and reintervention in three patients (23 %). No patient with a BS had surgery as the frontline treatment: the initial management consisted of an endoscopic procedure, a percutaneous procedure, or medical treatment. Four patients (23.5 %) underwent surgical treatment after failure of nonsurgical procedures. Conclusions: The only identified predictive factor of BC, either a BS or a BL, was a thin bile duct. Although the noninvasive technique was the treatment of choice initially, reintervention was required in almost 25 % of the cases.
- Subjects
COMPLICATIONS of bile duct surgery; BILIARY tract surgery; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; SURGICAL complications; PANCREATIC surgery
- Publication
World Journal of Surgery, 2014, Vol 38, Issue 11, p2946
- ISSN
0364-2313
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00268-014-2698-5