[Operations in acute blockade of the common bile duct and the papilla]

From 1971 to 1980, 7015 operations of the bile duct were performed at the IIIrd Surgical Clinic (University of Brno) and the District Hospital Brno: 25 cases for acute septic cholangitis, 725 cases for acute or recurrent cholecystopancreatitis and 30 cases for acute obstruction of Vater's papilla with concomitant biliary hypertension of the biliary tree and shock symptoms. This "papillary shock" was complicated by infection and needed urgent surgical intervention.