Drain vs No Drain After Live Donor Hepatectomy
Recruiting
N/A
Interventional Study
Donor Hepatectomy
No Placebo Group
Every participant receives an active treatment — no one gets a placebo.
At a Glance
- Age
- 18 – 55
- Sex
- Any
- Study type
- Interventional
- Purpose
- Other
- Participants needed
- 80 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Marengo Asia Hospitals · Other
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About This Trial
Prophylactic abdominal drain placement after donor hepatectomy has been a common or even mandatory practice in most transplant centers. This serves to monitor the occurrence of post-operative intra-abdominal bleeding and is used for the detection and drainage of any bile leakage. However prophylactic drain placement is not without complications, like; Increased rates of intraabdominal and wound in…
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Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: Patients undergoing donor hepatectomy -
Exclusion Criteria:
Any patient not consenting to the procedure. Intraoperative need for drain placement in no drain arm due to surgical factors.
Inverted L/ J shaped incision. Laparoscopic donor hepatectomy Robotic donor hepatectomy.
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