ArticleGastroenterology research and practice2015
Early or Delayed Intervention for Bile Duct Injuries following Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy? A Dilemma Looking for an Answer.
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- SAGES-AHPBA 2025: a systematic review and meta-analysis on the surgical management of bile duct injury following cholecystectomy.Surgical endoscopy · 2025Pooled it
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- Long-Term Impact of Iatrogenic Bile Duct Injury.Digestive surgery · 2020Pooled it
- Management of Segmental Bile Duct Injuries After Cholecystectomy: a Systematic Review.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2019Pooled it
- Management of Iatrogenic Bile-Duct Injury After Cholecystectomy, 1995-2025: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Factors affecting early and late period outcomes in patients undergoing surgical repair due to biliary tract injury.Frontiers in surgery · 2025Article
- Outcomes of hepaticojejunostomy for post-cholecystectomy bile duct injury.The Journal of international medical research · 2023Article
- Determinants, Costs, and Consequences of Common Bile Duct Injury Requiring Operative Repair Among Privately Insured Individuals in the United States, 2003-2020.Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2023Article
- Iatrogenic Injury of Biliary Tree-Single-Centre Experience.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Laparoscopy-Assisted Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography: New Insight in Management of Iatrogenic Bile Duct Injury.Middle East journal of digestive diseases · 2022Article
- Timing of surgical repair of bile duct injuries after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: A systematic review.World journal of hepatology · 2022Article
- Bile duct injury outcomes following cholecystectomy: a cross sectional study.American journal of clinical and experimental immunology · 2020Article
- Early Surgical Repair of Bile Duct Injuries following Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: The Sooner the Better.Surgery journal (New York, N.Y.) · 2019Article
- Radiofrequency Energy in Hepatic Bed during Partial Cystectomy for Hydatid Liver Disease: Standing Out from the Usual Conservative Surgical Management.Gastroenterology research and practice · 2016Article
- The Hepaticojejunostomy Technique with Intra-Anastomotic Stent in Biliary Diseases and Its Evolution throughout the Years: A Technical Analysis.Gastroenterology research and practice · 2016Article
- Bile duct injury repair —— earlier is not better.Frontiers of medicine · 2015Article
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Abstract
Background. To evaluate the effect of timing of management and intervention on outcomes of bile duct injury. Materials and Methods. We retrospectively analyzed 92 patients between 1991 and 2011. Data concerned patient's demographic characteristics, type of injury (according to Strasberg classification), time to referral, diagnostic procedures, timing of surgical management, and final outcome. The endpoint was the comparison of postoperative morbidity (stricture, recurrent cholangitis, required interventions/dilations, and redo reconstruction) and mortality between early (less than 2 weeks) and late (over 12 weeks) surgical reconstruction. Results. Three patients were treated conservatively, two patients were treated with percutaneous drainage, and 13 patients underwent PTC or ERCP. In total 74 patients were operated on in our unit. 58 of them underwent surgical reconstruction by end-to-side Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy, 11 underwent primary bile duct repair, and the remaining 5 underwent more complex procedures. Of the 56 patients, 34 patients were submitted to early reconstruction, while 22 patients were submitted to late reconstruction. After a median follow-up of 93 months, there were two deaths associated with BDI after LC. Outcomes after early repairs were equal to outcomes after late repairs when performed by specialists. Conclusions. Early repair after BDI results in equal outcomes compared with late repair. BDI patients should be referred to centers of expertise and experience.
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