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  • Title: 65 cases of preserving pylorus pancreatoduodenectomy: experience and problems.
    Author: Zhao Y, Cai L, Zhong S, Zhu Y.
    Journal: Chin Med Sci J; 1994 Sep; 9(3):171-5. PubMed ID: 7865838.
    Abstract:
    Sixty-five patients with neoplasm (62 cases) or pancreatitis (3 cases) were treated with preserving pylorus pancreatoduodenectomy (PPPD) from 1984 to 1991. One postoperative death occurred. Follow-up studies were performed in 35 patients who had been treated by PPPD or the standard Whipple's procedure; they were questioned carefully concerning clinical symptoms. Further studies were performed in 20 patients with or without pylorus preservation (10 patients, respectively). Nutritional status and gastrointestinal digestive and absorptive functions were evaluated by determination of serum components, gastric analysis, barium emptying time, D-xylose absorption test, 14CO2 breath test, PABA, and other methods. The results demonstrated malnutrition and postgastrectomy syndromes in some patients after the standard Whipple's procedure, but not in those with PPPD. The quality of life was better in the latter. Pylorus preservation may be the main reason for this above difference. Delayed gastric emptying in the early postoperative period was a complication in some patients (21%) treated by PPPD. We recommend PPPD for pancreatoduodenectomy.
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