Open AccessBILIARY TRACT COMPLICATIONS OF SIDE-TO-SIDE WITHOUT T TUBE VERSUS END-TO-END WITH OR WITHOUT T TUBE CHOLEDOCHOCHOLEDOCHOSTOMY IN LIVER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS1
Author(s) -
John M. Rabkin,
Susan L. Orloff,
Matt H. Reed,
Leslie J. Wheeler,
Christopher L. Corless,
Kent G. Benner,
Ken Flora,
Hugo R. Rosen,
Ali J. Olyaei
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/00007890-199801270-00008
Subject(s) - medicine , anastomosis , tube (container) , surgery , incidence (geometry) , gastroenterology , mathematics , mechanical engineering , geometry , engineering
Biliary anastomotic complications remain a major cause of morbidity in liver transplant recipients, ranging between 10% and 50% in large clinical series. An end-to-end choledochocholedochostomy with or without T tube (CDCD EE with T tube and CDCD EE w/o T tube) and a Roux-en Y choledochojejunostomy have been standard methods for biliary drainage.