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Packing of the Gastroduodenal Artery Stump Using Falciform Ligament During Pancreaticoduodenectomy
Teruyuki Usuba1,2, Ryota Iwase3, Yuichi Nakaseko3
1Department of Surgery, Katsushika Medical Center, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; usuba@jikei.ac.jp.
Background/Aim:
Pseudoaneurysm formation is a potentially fatal complication after pancreaticoduodenectomy. We developed a packing method in which the gastroduodenal artery stump is packed inside a falciform ligament to reduce the post-pancreatectomy hemorrhage due to pseudoaneurysm formation. This study aimed to evaluate its efficacy.
Patients And Methods:
This study included 210 patients who underwent pancreaticoduodenectomies between January 2007 and December 2023. The study population was divided into two groups; the packing group (n=110) and the no-packing group (n=100), and the clinical variables were compared between the two groups.
Results:
Pseudoaneurysms were observed in six (2.9%) patients, and post-pancreatectomy hemorrhage was observed in four (1.9%) patients. There was no significant difference in pseudoaneurysm formation between the packing and no-packing groups (p=0.477), and the mortality rates for both pseudoaneurysm and post-pancreatectomy hemorrhage were zero. Two patients in the no-packing group were found to have shock, whereas four patients in the packing group (n=4) did not. Additionally, we encountered a 6 cm unruptured pseudoaneurysm following packing.
Conclusion:
The packing method did not reduce pseudoaneurysm formation after pancreaticoduodenectomy, but may prevent pseudoaneurysm rupture.
