1. Quality-of-life after bile duct injury repaired by hepaticojejunostomy : a national cohort study
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Helena Taflin, Jenny Rystedt, Christian Sturesson, Per Sandström, C. Strömberg, Christopher Månsson, and Oskar Hemmingsson
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medicine.medical_specialty ,SF-36 ,bile duct injury ,hepaticojejunostomy ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Bile Duct Diseases ,cholecystectomy ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,National cohort ,Cohort Studies ,Quality of life ,Internal medicine ,Medicine ,Humans ,Cholecystectomy ,business.industry ,Bile duct ,Kirurgi ,Gastroenterology ,humanities ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic ,Quality of Life ,Surgery ,Bile Ducts ,Quality-of-life ,BDI ,business ,Cohort study - Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Reports on quality-of-life (QoL) after bile duct injury (BDI) show conflicting results. The aim of this cohort study was to evaluate QoL stratified according to type of treatment. METHODS: QoL assessment using the SF-36 (36-item short form health survey) questionnaire. Patients with post-cholecystectomy BDI needing hepaticojejunostomy (HJ) were compared to all other treatments (BDI repair) and to patients without BDI at cholecystectomy (controls). RESULTS: Patients needing a HJ after BDI reported reduced long-term QoL irrespective of time for diagnosis and repair in both the physical (PCS; p
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- 2020