Whipple Procedure: A 5-year Clinical Experience in Tertiary Care Center

Services Hospital, Lahore

Status: Completed

Conditions: Whipple Procedure

Treatments: Procedure: Whipple Procedure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03820583

s11

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study was conducted in tertiary care hospital of Lahore. Patient undergoing Whipple procedure were studied by compiling demographic details of the patients, common presenting symptoms, various indications for Whipple's procedure, the cofactors which affect the procedures outcome and morbidity and mortality of the patients.

Full description

This study was performed by collecting data through predesigned questionnaire about patients undergoing Whipple's procedure from operation theatres and medical record section. Those patients, whose tumor was unresectable and undergone palliative surgical procedures were excluded from the study.

Enrollment: 57 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients of both sexes with age ranging from 20 years to 70 years
• patients with pancreatic tumors
• patients with adequate cardiorespiratory reserves to be fit for prolong general anesthesia

Exclusion criteria

• unresectable tumors
• unfit for surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)