The “Colonial Wig” pancreaticojejunostomy: zero leaks with a novel technique for reconstruction after pancreaticoduodenectomy
Xihua Yang, Pouya Aghajafari, Naeem Goussous, Shirali T Patel and Steven C Cunningham
Baltimore, USA
Author Affiliations: Department of Surgery, Saint Agnes Hospital and Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD, USA (Yang X, Aghajafari P, Goussous N, Patel ST and Cunningham SC)
Corresponding Author: Steven C Cunningham, MD, FACS, Director of Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Director of Research, Saint Agnes Hospital, 900 Caton Avenue, MB 207, Baltimore, MD 21229, USA (Tel: +667-234-8815; Fax: +410-719-0094; Email: Steven. Cunningham@ascension.org)
Abstract：BACKGROUND: Postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF) remains common and morbid after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). A major advance in the study of POPF is the fistula risk score (FRS).
METHODS: We analyzed 48 consecutive patients undergoing PD. The “Colonial Wig” pancreaticojejunostomy (CWPJ) technique was used in the last 22 PDs, we compared 22 CWPJ to 26 conventional PDs.
RESULTS: Postoperative morbidity was 49% (27% Clavien grade >2). The median length of hospital stay was 11 days. In the first 26 PDs, the PJ was performed according to standard techniques and the clinically relevant POPF (CR-POPF) rate was 15%, similar to the FRS-predicted rate (14%). In the next 22 PJs, the CWPJ was employed. Although the FRS-predicted rates were similar in these two groups (14% vs 13%), the CR-POPF rate in the CWPJ group was 0 (P=0.052).
CONCLUSION: Early experience with the CWPJ is encouraging, and this anastomosis may be a safe and effective way to lower POPF rates.
. [J]. Hepatobiliary Pancreat Dis Int, 2017, 16(5): 545-551.
Yang X, Aghajafari P, Goussous N, Patel ST, Cunningham SC. The “Colonial Wig” pancreaticojejunostomy: zero leaks with a novel technique for reconstruction after pancreaticoduodenectomy. Hepatobiliary Pancreat Dis Int, 2017, 16(5): 545-551.
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