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  • Title: [Experiences with preoperative and palliative percutaneous transhepatic cholangio-drainage].
    Author: Arlart IP, von Dewitz H, Fritz W.
    Journal: Rofo; 1986 Mar; 144(3):267-72. PubMed ID: 2421374.
    Abstract:
    In obstructive jaundice PTCD plays an important role as a preoperative or a palliative therapeutic method inspite of the availability of biliary endoprostheses. This study was carried out to assess complications following PTCD, the effect on liver function (serum parameters) and the relationship between duration of preoperative drainage and postoperative complication rate. The results demonstrate that 11-hole pigtail-catheters are useful for intrahepatic location and 32-hole ringcatheters for extrahepatic location due to reduced dislocation rates. The effect of biliary drainage after 7 rsp. 25 days on liver function was significant (p less than 0.05). As a main complication fever episodes could be observed associated with pathologic bile-/bloodcultures in most cases; other complications were similar to those presented in the literature. A prophylactic antibiotic therapy following PTCD seems to be useful, a preoperative biliary drainage is recommended until serum bilirubin levels become constant or at least for 2 weeks.
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