NCT03820583

Whipple Procedure: A 5-year Clinical Experience in Tertiary Care Center

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 57 (actual)
• Sponsor: Services Hospital, Lahore · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study was conducted in tertiary care hospital of Lahore. Patient undergoing Whipple procedure were studied by compiling demographic details of the patients, common presenting symptoms, various indications for Whipple's procedure, the cofactors which affect the procedures outcome and morbidity and mortality of the patients.

Detailed description

This study was performed by collecting data through predesigned questionnaire about patients undergoing Whipple's procedure from operation theatres and medical record section. Those patients, whose tumor was unresectable and undergone palliative surgical procedures were excluded from the study.

Conditions

• Whipple Procedure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Whipple Procedure	Patients underwent Whipple procedure for pancreatic tumors. The procedure commenced with rooftop incision. then layers of abdomen dissected to reach the peritoneum. Then Duodenum dissected out along with pancreas and common bile duct. After rescetion of these structures the anatomy of the tract restored with three anastomosis namely pancreaticojejunostomy, gastrojejunostomy and choledochojejunostomy/hepaticojejunostomy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-01-01
• Primary completion: 2018-12-31
• Completion: 2018-12-31
• First posted: 2019-01-29
• Last updated: 2019-01-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan