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Non-Operative Management of High Grade Blunt Hepatic Injury: Clinical Complications and the Role of Collateral Damage

NCT00694499 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 183

Last updated 2008-06-10

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Summary

Little is known about the role of collateral damage in patients with high grade liver injuries (LI). This retrospective single centre study investigates the safety of the non-operative management of patients with high grade blunt liver injuries (NOMLI) and the impact of to the LI collateral intra- and extra-abdominal damage on interventions and outcome. We first hypothesized that NOMLI can be safely achieved also in high-grade liver injured patients, the management of trauma patients with LI mainly consist of the treatment of collateral damages and their complications, and causes of death are in the majority of cases not liver related. A retrospective study involving 183 patients with blunt hepatic injuries was therefore carried out to investigate these hypotheses.

Conditions

  • Liver Injury

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Bern

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Daniel Inderbitzin, MD · Dep. of Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Bern University Hospital Bern

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2000-01-31
Completion
2006-12-31

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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