Open AccessQuality of Life after Frey’s Procedure in Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis
Author(s) -
Satyajit Rath,
Susanta Meher,
Abhimanyu Basu,
Sujata Priyadarshini,
Bikram Rout,
Rakesh Sharma
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2016/16736.7417
Subject(s) - medicine , pancreatitis , quality of life (healthcare) , surgery , pancreatic duct , observational study , abdominal pain , general surgery , nursing
Chronic pancreatitis is a debilitating disease, associated with excruciating abdominal pain, exocrine and endocrine pancreatic insufficiency. Different types of surgical techniques have been described for the management of complications of this disease. The most common procedure which has been adopted for improving the quality of life of the patients with chronic pancreatitis is Frey's Procedure. It is an organ preserving procedure in which the main pancreatic duct is drained by lateral pancreatico-jejunostomy along with coring of the head of the pancreas.