Diagnostics and treatment of postcholecystectomy biliary complications

: The study concerns early postoperative bile leak and obstructive jaundice syndrome after cholecystectomy. 4865 patients were included in the study. The initial cholecystectomy was performed through the traditional laparotomy (n=2122), minilaparotomic access (n=1024) and laparoscopic access (n=1710). Early biliary complications were registered in 135 (2,8%) patients, of whom 47 had bile leak and 88 develop obstructive jaundice. The external drainage bile leak was registered in 0,68%; bile leak trough the trained common bile duct had 0,17% and bile leak into the abdominal cavity had 0,12% of these patients. In 17 cases the bile leak was caused by the cystic duct stump insufficiency, 12 cases were caused by bile leak from the gall bladder bed. 73,5% of bile leak were caused by misdiagnosed choledocholithiasis and papilla Vateri stenosis. Obstructive jaundice in early postoperative period was determined by underdiagnosed bile ductal pathology in the majority of patients (84 patients of 88). The main diagnostic method of biliary complications was the retrograde cholangiopancreaticography with the efficacy of 99,2%. Endoscopic transpapillary operations were curative in 97% of cases. Complications after endoscopic manipulations developed in 3,3%, all of them were successfully conservatively treated.