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Roux-en-Y choledochojejunostomy – indications same as Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy. Roux-en-Y pancreas transplant [6] Roux-en-Y pancreas reconstruction after blunt abdominal trauma. [7] Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy or choledochojejunostomy with gastrojejunostomy as palliation for irresectable pancreatic head cancer. [8]
The function of these shunts is to bypass the lungs and maintain proper circulation to important fetal tissue. In the fetal stage, the lungs fill with fluid and collapse because the fetus is within the amniotic sac and the placenta is providing the oxygen it needs to grow.
CDD is an alternative to choledochojejunostomy, a procedure which involves creating an anastomosis of the CBD to the jejunum. [9] CDD is less technically challenging as the procedure is fast and simple with less anastomotic sites and does not require the creation of a Roux-en-Y anastomosis. [5]
A Wisconsin woman is taking legal action after learning a feeding tube was allegedly left inside her body during surgery nearly 35 years ago. In 1989, Deborah Lowe was pregnant with twins when she ...
The Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt (BTT shunt), [1] previously known as the Blalock–Taussig Shunt (BT shunt), [2] is a surgical procedure used to increase blood flow to the lungs in some forms of congenital heart disease [3] such as pulmonary atresia and tetralogy of Fallot, which are common causes of blue baby syndrome. [3]
Stylised diagram of choledochojejunostomy indicating anastomoses A surgically created passage between the common bile duct and the jejunum in a procedure called a choledochojejunostomy , can be carried out to relieve the symptoms of biliary obstruction as well as allows the bile duct to drain.
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A portosystemic shunt or portasystemic shunt (medical subject heading term; PSS), also known as a liver shunt, is a bypass of the liver by the body's circulatory system.It can be either a congenital (present at birth) or acquired condition and occurs in humans as well as in other species of animals.