Biography
Biography: Ali I Yahya
Abstract
Libya is one of the countries where hydatid disease is endemic. A team of doctors reviewed retrospectively a total of 400 patients with hepatic hydatid cysts and were operated at Zliten University Hospital over the period of 24 years. The team of doctors looked for the clinical presentations of hepatic hydatid cysts. Most patients experienced abdominal pain or abdominal mass and few patients came to surgery department with rare presentation like obstructive jaundice. The obstruction of common bile duct was caused by the big cyst compressing on the bile duct or by the daughter cysts or hydatid membrane went into the bile duct. 49 patients whose main presentation involved abdominal pain and jaundice had been subjected for ultrasound scan and CT scan. All had open surgery, with two patients dying due to multiorgan failure, four patients developed recurrence of the hydatid, seven patients had bile leak which stopped spontaneously and three patients developed wound infection. All patients were cured from jaundice by surgery. In this presentation, the author would like to present new technique for common bile exploration in case of hydatid induced obstructive jaundice.