[High-risk biliary surgery. Study of 108 patients operated using the tradition method]

This study is to inform the patients outcomes from biliary tract surgery, with surgical risk higher than normal, in a general hospital. It was observational, retrospective, longitudinal and descriptive study. Among 1989-1992 were studied 108 patients with a 30 days follow up, operated from one or more risk surgical factors, 63 cases were included because had one high risk factor, 31 had two factors, 11 with three and three with four or more. 88 patients (81%) had good outcomes, while 20 (19%) had bad outcomes, 18 were women and two men, with two deaths and two reoperations. The good outcomes were in majority of patients with one high risk factor (57/63 = 90.5%); there were statistic difference with the two, three or four high risk factors cases.