ArticleJournal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract2019
A New Era of Bile Duct Repair: Robotic-Assisted Versus Laparoscopic Hepaticojejunostomy.
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- Minimally invasive repair of iatrogenic bile duct injuries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Pooled it
- SAGES-AHPBA 2025: a systematic review and meta-analysis on the surgical management of bile duct injury following cholecystectomy.Surgical endoscopy · 2025Pooled it
- A comparative meta-analysis and systematic review of robot-assisted versus laparoscopic hemihepatectomy.Journal of robotic surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Post-cholecystectomy Bile Duct Injury in Mexico: Prevention, Diagnosis, Management, and Healthcare System Challenges.Cureus · 2026Review
- Early (≤ 1 year) anastomotic complications after laparoscopic and robotic hepaticojejunostomy: initial experience from a single center.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Article
- Robotic versus open repair of iatrogenic biliary duct injury: an international multicenter retrospective propensity score matched study.Journal of robotic surgery · 2025Article
- The difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a narrative review.BMC surgery · 2025Review
- Emergency robotic surgery: the experience of a single center and review of the literature.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2024Review
- Minimally invasive surgery for post cholecystectomy biliary stricture: current evidence and future perspectives.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2023Review
- Hepaticojejunostomy for bile duct injury: state of the art.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2023Review
- Actuarial Patency Rates of Hepatico-Jejunal Anastomosis after Repair of Bile Duct Injury at a Reference Center.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- The Role of Robotic Visceral Surgery in Patients with Adhesions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Review
- Performance of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement calculator for early postoperative outcomes following bile duct repair hepaticojejunostomy.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2021Article
- Laparoscopic versus open surgery for the management of post-cholecystectomy benign biliary strictures.Surgical endoscopy · 2021Article
- Bile duct injuries: a contemporary survey of surgeon attitudes and experiences.Surgical endoscopy · 2020Article
- Iatrogenic bile duct injury: impact and management challenges.Clinical and experimental gastroenterology · 2019Review
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Abstract
backgroundDespite scientific evidence of the safety, efficacy, and in some cases superiority of minimally invasive surgery in hepato-pancreato-biliary procedures, there are scarce publications about bile duct repairs. The aim of this study was to compare the outcomes of robotic-assisted surgery versus laparoscopic surgery on bile duct repair in patients with post-cholecystectomy bile duct injury.
methodsThis is a retrospective comparative study of our prospectively collected database of patients with bile duct injury who underwent robotic or laparoscopic hepaticojejunostomy.
resultsSeventy-five bile duct repairs (40 by laparoscopic and 35 by robotic-assisted surgery) were treated from 2012 to 2018. Injury types were as follows: E1 (7.5% vs. 14.3%), E2 (22.5% vs. 14.3%), E3 (40% vs. 42.9%), E4 (22.5% vs. 28.6%), and E5 (7.5% vs. 0), for laparoscopic hepaticojejunostomy (LHJ) and robotic-assisted hepaticojejunostomy (RHJ) respectively. The overall morbidity rate was similar (LHJ 27.5% vs. RHJ 22.8%, P = 0.644), during an overall median follow-up of 28 (14-50) months. In the LHJ group, the actuarial primary patency rate was 92.5% during a median follow-up of 49 (43.2-56.8) months. While in the RHJ group, the actuarial primary patency rate was 100%, during a median follow-up of 16 (12-22) months. The overall primary patency rate was 96% (LHJ 92.5% vs. RHJ 100%, log-rank P = 0.617).
conclusionOur results showed that the robotic approach is similar to the laparoscopic regarding safety and efficacy in attaining primary patency for bile duct repair.
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