ABSTRACT
Objective To investigate and cure major complications after percutaneous transhepastic biliary drainage(PTBD).Methods The clinical data of 13 major complications after PTBD were retrospectively analyzed,5 complications were acute and the other 8 complications were delayed.Two cases were dealed with intervention.and operations were performed for the other 11 patients immediately.Results Among the 7 patients who received one-stage operation,3 patients were accompanied with acute kidney failure,and 2 patients were died.Two patients who received the second-stage operation recovered snccessfully.Two patients who surrendered were surrived 3 and 8 months respectively.Conclusions It is difficult to deal with the major complications after PTBD,and the main cause of postoperative death is acute kidney failure.It will be helpful to deal with the primary disease on the second-stage.