If the bile duct is very badly damaged and needs to be removed it has to be replaced by a reconstructed tube made from a piece of small intestine.
Bile duct resection surgery recovery.
This can lead to severe complications if left untreated and.
Surgery to remove bile duct cancer can have serious side effects and depending on how extensive it is you may need many weeks to recover.
The biggest concern about resection is that following the operation the patient can develop liver failure.
When the bile ducts get blocked bile builds up in the liver causing jaundice and other life threatening conditions.
The bile duct is the tube that connects the liver to the bowel and is responsible for the drainage of bile.
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This form of cancerous tumor develops in the bile ducts the slender tubes that connect the liver to the gallbladder and small intestines.
This is called a roux en y loop and also involves connecting up all of the smaller ducts that lead from the liver so that they empty into the small intestine.
And more rarely traumatic infectious or inflammatory processes involving the biliary tree.
Bile duct surgery with total cyst removal is the definitive treatment for choledochal cysts.
Overall the five year survival rate after a whipple procedure is about 20 to 25.
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To enhance your recovery after surgery ejaz says.
Your body will function normally without your gallbladder.
Can a portion of the remaining normal liver grow back.
The bile ducts carry bile secreted by the liver to digest fats to the gallbladder and small intestine.
Bile duct resection and reconstruction bdrr is performed for a variety of indications including benign and malignant tumors.
Even if the procedure successfully removes the visible tumor it s possible that some cancer cells have already.
When a portion of a normal liver is removed the remaining liver can grow back regenerate to the original size within several weeks.
A bile duct obstruction is when one of the tubes that carries bile between the liver gallbladder and small intestine becomes blocked.
Choledochal cysts are inflammatory in nature.
Complications from biliary and gallbladder disease or surgery.
Left untreated this frequently lead to recurrent cholangitis inflammation and infection in the bile ducts or pancreatitis inflammation of the pancreas.
If your cancer is very unlikely to be curable be sure to carefully weigh the pros and cons of surgery or other treatments that will need a lot of recovery time.
