ArticleFrontiers of medicine2015
Bile duct injury repair —— earlier is not better.
Article in Frontiers of medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- 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
- Long-term outcomes and quality of life after surgical repair of benign biliary stricture following bile duct injury during cholecystectomy.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2026Article
- Hepatico-Duodenal Fistula Following Iatrogenic Strasberg Type E4 Bile Duct Injury: A Case Report.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Actuarial Patency Rates of Hepatico-Jejunal Anastomosis after Repair of Bile Duct Injury at a Reference Center.Journal of clinical medicine · 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
- Combined surgical and interventional radiological treatment for biliary leakage following iatrogenic biliary obstruction.Radiology case reports · 2018Article
- Management of biliary complications after liver transplantation.World journal of hepatology · 2015Review
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Abstract
Bile duct injury is a common complication of cholecystectomy. The timing of bile duct injury repair remains controversial. A recent review conducted in France reported 39% complications and 64% failure after immediate repair in 194 patients compared with 14% complications and 8%failure after late repair in 133 patients. A national review of 139 consecutive early repairs conducted at five hepatopancreaticobiliary centers in Denmark reported 4% mortality, 36% morbidity, and 42 restrictures (30%) at a median follow-up of 102 months, and only 64 patients (46%) demonstrated uneventful short-term and long-term outcomes. Most patients with bile duct injury present with bile leak and sepsis; thus, early repair is not recommended. Percutaneous drainage of bile and endoscopic stenting are the mainstays of treatment of bile leak because they convert acute bile duct injury into a controlled external biliary fistula. The ensuing benign biliary stricture should be repaired by a biliary surgeon after a delay of 4–6 weeks once the external biliary fistula has closed.
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