PMID: 699220Oct 1, 1978Paper

Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage

Chirurgia italiana
N NicoliG Mangiante

Abstract

The authors describe their experience in 23 cases of biliary tract drainage by the transhepatic-percutaneous approach in the course of obstructive jaundice of diversified origin. This can be done for essentially three reasons, namely to alleviate jaundice preoperatively, to provide permanent bile drainage in patients not amenable to surgery, and to relieve excess pressure in surgical anastomoses of the biliary passages. On the basis of biological considerations (relationship between severity and duration of cholestasis on the one hand and postoperative mortality and morbidity on the other), and in light of their own results, the authors argue in favor of this procedure, explaining that it is only mildly traumatic to the patient, easy to perform, attended by a low quota of complications, and above all effective as a drainage; also, it does not unduly prolong the preoperative period for patients scheduled for further and major surgery. Also in view of the current role of PTC in the diagnosis of obstructive jaundice, they submit that transhepatic-percutaneous drainage should be done right next to recognition of dilatation of the intrahepatic bile passages by CAT or echotomography.

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