SURGERY OF LIVER AND PANCREAS

Another important surgical condition of the liver is liver injury. Injury to the liver can be due to a road traffic accident which causes blunt trauma or it can be due an assault, which can either be blunt trauma or penetrating trauma (due to stabbing with a knife or due to gun shot injury)

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Most of the blunt liver injuries can be managed non operatively unless they are of high grade and the patient is loosing blood rapidly and significant drop in both blood pressure and hemoglobin level. 

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PANCREAS

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As a Surgical Gastroenterologist, the most common pancreatic problems that we come across are

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• ACUTE PANCREATITIS

• CHRONIC PANCREATITIS

• PANCREATIC CANCER

• PANCREATIC CYSTS

• PANCREATIC INJURY

 

ACUTE PANCREATITIS:

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This disease is characterized by severe pain in the upper abdomen, which radiates to the upper back and it may be associated with nausea,vomiting,breathlessness. 

A classical presentation of a patient with acute pancreatitis includes

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• Severe upper abdominal pain which radiates to back like a stabbing type of pain

• Raised Serum Amylase levels

• Ultrasound or CT Scan evidence of pancreatic swelling/inflammation

Presence of two of any of the above three features is suggestive of acute pancreatitis 

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In patients with gall stones as the cause for pancreatitis, the gall bladder ahs to be removed depending on the severity of the pancreatitis

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In patients with mild acute pancreatitis, laparoscopic cholecystectomy is recommended during the same admission.

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In patients with severe gall stone pancreatitis, laparoscopic cholecystectomy is recommended after a period of six weeks.

 

Acute Pancreatitis is a life threatening disease of the pancreas and it has to managed in a multispeciality care hospital for proper management of the patients. This disease requires attention of a gastroenterologist, surgeon, radiologist, anaesthesia and critical care physician for optimal care