Stage interventions in the treatment of patients with malignant diseases of the common bile duct terminal segment complicated by acute mechanical jaundice

Obstructive mechanical jaundice is a well-researched complication of various diseases and causes, yet considering patients` condition with malignant diseases according to the stage of the malignant process, severity of complications and etc. Selection of the most appropriate method of surgical treatment is always an option where it is essential to consider finding a way between efficiency and surgical trauma. The aim of the research is to optimize the results of surgical treatment of patients with malignant tumours of the common bile duct terminal segment complicated by acute mechanical jaundice. Materials and methods: patients over 18 y.o. with duodenal obstruction; the presence of other active cancer pathology or blood diseases. The research was performed on 2 different groups divided according to the use of biliary passability restoring method concluding the preferability of minimally invasive methods of bile duct decompression. Results: minimally invasive methods are not inferior to the effectiveness of biliary decompression comparing to open methods, have a number of advantages, such as minimal invasiveness, relative safety, low incidence of complications and mortality Conclusions: the introduction of the developed algorithm for surgical treatment of blastomatous mechanical jaundice with the consistent use of antegrade and open methods, as well as antegrade, retrograde and “rendezvous” techniques in surgically incurable patients allowed to reduce the number of early postoperative complications from 32.7 % to 13.3 %, the number of complications requiring surgery – from 5.8 % to 1.3 % and the level of postoperative mortality – from 11.5 % to 2.7 %.