Pringle Time Exceeding 120 Min in Liver Resection

University of Milan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tolerance of the Liver

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01237002

Pringle 120 minutes

Details and patient eligibility

About

Intermittent Pringle's maneuver is widely used to limit blood loss during hepatectomy, without an established time-limit. However, many authors claims its danger for patients' outcome. The investigators check the short term outcome of a consecutive cohort of patients who underwent hepatectomy with intermittent clamping exceeding 120 minutes.

Enrollment: 189 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 29 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients in whom total cumulative clamping time exceeded 60 minutes.

Exclusion criteria

• patients in whom total cumulative clamping time was less than 60 minutes

Trial design

189 participants in 2 patient groups

Group 1

Description:

117 patients with cumulative clamping time between 60 and 120 minutes

Group 2

Description:

72 patients with cumulative clamping time longer than 120 minutes