IMPROVING DIAGNOSTIC AND SURGICAL TACTICS IN PATIENTS WITH MECHANICAL JAUNDICE

Abstract

The problem of diagnostics and treatment of mechanical jaundice, which unites a large group of diseases, has currently acquired particular relevance and is one of the difficult tasks of surgery. The reasons for this are the steady increase in patients with this pathology, the increase in the number of elderly and senile people among them. Diagnostic errors, which occur in 12-38% of cases, lead to liver failure and other severe complications (gastrointestinal bleeding, purulent cholangitis, liver abscesses, sepsis), which in 14-27% of cases lead to death.