Whipple Procedure: A Five-Year Clinical Experience in Tertiary Care Center.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Whipple procedure is one of the major surgeries performed in tertiary care centers. Once considered a high mortality procedure is now being practicing with mortality declining to less than 5%. This study describes our five-year experience of the Whipple procedure in terms of preoperative, operative, and postoperative parameters of patients undergoing surgery in a local tertiary care setting.

Material and methods

This was a non-randomized interventional study that was conducted at the Surgical Department of Services Hospital Lahore from January 2014 to December 2018. A total of 57 Whipple procedures were performed during this period. Demographic data, presenting symptoms, physical signs, past medical history, preoperative stenting details, intra-operative duratio

SUBMITTER: Changazi SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7733773 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature