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Whipples Resection in Octogenarians

NCT03813368 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2024-06-13

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Summary

Whipples resection is an operation that has a burden of high morbidity and mortality. It is performed for a variety of disorders of the pancreas, duodenum and ampulla. The most common indication is pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma which has a poor long term outcome even when curative surgery has been performed. Short and long term outcomes however, have improved recently and the indications for curative resection have been increasingly extended, including operating on those that previously may have been considered too old to benefit from curative resection.

Little is known about the benefit of performing this procedure in the oldest patients. Performing Whipples resection in patients over the age of 70 has been reported and has been shown to result in satisfactory perioperative results with comparable long term outcomes to those under 70. However the benefit of performing the same procedure in the over 80 age group is less well reported and consistently presents a challenging decision for the clinician.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Whipples pancreatico-duodenectomy

Classic whipples and pylorus preserving

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • NHS Lothian

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University of Edinburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michael Hughes · NHS Lothian

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-02-20
Primary Completion
2019-05-01
Completion
2019-07-01

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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