Jejunal or Ileal Exocrine Drainage in Pancreas Transplantation: Impact on Gastrointestinal Function

CONCLUSIONS: Long-term outcomes were comparable between our patient groups. Catastrophic complica-tions occur in a minority of cases, requiring salvage surgery. More complications occurred with ileal anastomosis, but this approach allows graft pancreatectomy and formation of loop ileostomy, avoiding a more proximal stoma in clinically unstable patients. Further studies are needed to examine the impact of enteric anastomosis site.PMID:37584539 | DOI:10.6002/ect.2022.0342

Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - August 16, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Daniel T Doherty Jaimee Tan Robert McFarlane Jennifer Kingston Hussein A Khambalia Titus Augustine Zia Moinuddin David van Dellen Source Type: research