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Surgical resection in periampullary cancer using pancreaticoduodenectomy is the most important modality in the treatment. In the past, pancreaticoduodenectomy was associated with high morbidity and mortality. However, with the advances in techniques, including perioperative patient management, development of antibiotics, diagnostic radiology, and interventional treatments, pancreaticoduodenectomy is now considered a safe and feasible operation. Postoperative complication rates are reported to be in 10 to 20% in experienced hospitals and operation related mortality is at about 1%. Therefore, surgical treatment for periampullary cancer is actively considered.

However, postoperative complications, such as postoperative pancreatic fistula, (POPF) delayed gastric emptying, intraabdominal abscess, and postoperative bleeding, are still serious complications. Among these complications, delayed gastric emptying is considered less critical. However, delayed gastric emptying (DGE) can cause poor oral intake, which in turn, may lead to delay in recovery of postoperative nutritional state and in severe cases, requires insertion of levine tube and long-term fasting.

There have been many hypotheses for cause of DGE after pancreaticoduodenectomy, but definite cause have not been discovered yet. With the introduction of pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy (PPPD), incidences of DGE were initially reported to have increased. However, results of most randomized comparative studies had concluded that PPPD and PD have no significance in occurence of DGE.

One hypothesis for cause of DGE we present here has to do with anatomic positioning of anastomosis site, especially pancreatojejunostomy (PJ) and duodenojejunostomy (DJ), after PPPD. Reconstruction after PPPD positions PJ and DJ close to each other. PJ site is often associated with one of postoperative complications, POPF. POPF may create inflammation around PJ site and pancreatitis, which may lead to severe adhesion around PJ as a secondary change. This adhesion and inflammation may cause DJ, which is located near PJ, to be pulled towards PJ site. When DJ is pulled towards PJ site, distal DJ site can become angulated and gastric contents may not beadle to pass easily. Gastric contents may be stagnated in stomach and thereby causing DGE. Therefore, in this study, we will fixate DJ on transverse colon using sutures, and prevent possibility of angulation of DJ. This additional procedure may reduce occurence of DGE.


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NCT number NCT02635399
Study type Interventional
Source Yonsei University
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Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date January 1, 2016
Completion date December 2019

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