Emergency oesophageal transection in uncontrolled variceal haemorrhage
- 1 August 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 60 (8), 635-640
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800600815
Abstract
The results of emergency oesophageal transection are described. The overall operative mortality-rate was 45 per cent. There were no operative deaths in the patients with extrahepatic obstruction and normal liver function. The operative mortality-rate for the patients with cirrhosis was 53 per cent, or a salvage rate of 47 per cent if one considers that this is a highly selected group of patients (albeit negatively)–patients with impaired liver function who had not responded to intensive medical treatment and who were still bleeding at the time of surgery.Keywords
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