Bookedited by Vinay K. Kapoor.
Summary: This book provides detailed insight to the readers into various aspects of bile duct injury. Bile duct injury is a common complication of cholecystectomy to treat gall stone disease prevalent all over the world. Risk of bile duct injury is more during a laparoscopic procedure as compared to open procedure and most cholecystectomies today are performed laparoscopically. Bile duct injury causes major morbidity and may even result in death, additionally it increases the healthcare costs and impairs quality of life. It is therefore important that every surgeon who performs cholecystectomy knows how to suspect, diagnose, manage and prevent bile duct injury. This book provides practical information and offers assistance in managing patients with difficult cases of bile duct injury. It summarises Dr Kapoor's experience with management of more than 1,000 patients with post-cholecystectomy bile duct injury/ biliary stricture. Chapters cover anatomy, epidemiology, mechanism, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, investigations, classification, diagnosis, management and prevention of bile duct injury. It also includes non-medical issues including health care, socio-economic, costs and quality of life.
Contents:
Surgical anatomy
Epidemiology
Etiology
Prevention
Patho-physiology of bile leak, bile loss and biliary obstruction
Non-biliary injuries
Nomenclature and classification
Intra-operative diagnosis and management
Postoperative diagnosis and management
External biliary fistula
Benign biliary stricture
Surgical management
Endoscopic management
Follow up
Health care
Socio-economic and medico-legal aspects.