Bile duct obstruction treatment usually involves surgery or an endoscopic procedure.
Common bile duct surgery complications.
A bile duct injury is damage to the bile ducts that happens during gallbladder surgery.
This includes infection sepsis and liver damage.
To treat these cancers the surgeon cuts out the part of the liver.
A bile duct can get cut burned or pinched.
How common are bile duct injuries during gallbladder surgery.
Possible complications that can arise without treatment include.
The cause of the obstruction will determine what kind of surgery or procedure is necessary.
Surgery for resectable bile duct cancers.
As part of the surgery to remove your gallbladder clips are used to seal the tube that connected the gallbladder to your main bile duct.
Left untreated a bile duct obstruction can cause life threatening complications.
Itching abdominal pain usually in the upper right side fever or night sweats nausea and vomiting tiredness or lack of energy unintentional weight loss loss of appetite.
The bacteria from the infection can spread rapidly and may move into the liver.
People with bile duct obstruction also often experience.
Dangerous buildup of bilirubin infections sepsis chronic liver disease biliary cirrhosis.
Intrahepatic bile duct cancers are in bile ducts that are inside the liver.
If a gallstone stops in between the gallbladder and the common bile duct an infection called cholecystitis may occur.
Less common causes of blockages include cancers of the bile duct cholangiocarcinomas and strictures scars that narrow the ducts after infection surgery or inflammation.
Perihilar bile duct cancer develops where the branches of the bile ducts first leave the liver.
A bile duct injury is damage to the bile duct during gallbladder surgery.
When a gallstone is stuck in the bile duct the bile can become infected.
The main side effects are.
The numbers vary by study.
Pain bruising bleeding your nurses will check you regularly infection.
It s possible though for bile to leak.
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.