title: Management of bile duct injuries: a practical approach.
abstract: The incidence of bile duct injury (BDI) has increased after the introduction of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. A BDI can occur in the hands of experienced surgeons also. It can result in serious complications and may even cause death of the patient; it also has financial and legal implications. Proper training, sound surgical technique, and conversion to an open operation can prevent a large number of injuries. An injury that is missed during the operation manifests in the postoperative period as a bile leak and external biliary fistula or during the follow up as a biliary stricture. Management of a BDI depends on the nature of the bile duct injured, type of injury, and expertise available; it may range from simple subhepatic drainage to Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy. Excellent results can be obtained when BDI is managed at a hepatobiliary center.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. vkkapoor.india@gmail.com
authors.forename: Vinay K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Kapoor
mesh_terms: D001652:Bile Ducts / Q000293:injuries* / Q000473:pathology; D001658:Biliary Fistula / Q000209:etiology; D017081:Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003135:Common Bile Duct / Q000293:injuries; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*