Bile Duct Repair Recovery

An endoscope is a long bendable tube with a light and camera at the end.

Bile duct repair recovery.

This can lead to severe complications if left untreated and. During your procedure your doctor may use the device to break up gallstones and remove them remove a growth repair a lesion or place a stent to expand a very narrow bile duct. A bile duct can get cut burned or pinched. Bile duct injury during cholecystectomy is a serious complication that often requires surgical repair.

Occasionally as abdominal surgeons we are confronted with common bile duct injury noted during video laparoscopic or open cholecystectomy. 7 after your biliary obstruction is diagnosed and or treated the endoscope will be removed. Your sedation medication will be stopped. Stents help widen the narrowed area of your bile duct and allow the bile to flow through.

This must prevent any loss of bile from the duct and into the body cavity but it must not be too tight to prevent bile flowing through the space inside the duct. An ercp may be sufficient to remove small stones from the common bile duct or to place a stent inside the duct to restore bile flow. Usually this is solved by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ercp sphincterotomy and stent or enteric bypass suture repair and tube drainage. Microsurgery techniques can be used to repair any tears in the bile duct by using fine stitching.

A bile duct obstruction is when one of the tubes that carries bile between the liver gallbladder and small intestine becomes blocked. If the injury on the bile duct is located on the lower end of the duct the surgeon can easily attach a section of intestine to the healthy area of the bile duct above the injury allowing bile to flow freely as part of the normal digestive process. In cases where vital organs are re sectioned removed or transplanted the recovery may take much longer. There is heterogeneity in the literature regarding the optimal timing of surgical repair and it remains unclear to what extent timing determines postoperative morbidity and long term anastomotic function.

This is often used in cases where obstruction is caused by a. As a result of an injury the bile duct will not be able to work right leaking bile into the abdomen or blocking the normal flow of bile from the liver. Bile duct cancer surgery recovery time varies from one person to another and depends completely on the kind of surgery performed.