The value of intraoperative White-Test for biliary leakage following hepatic resection

Background: Bile leakage testing may help to detect and reduce the incidence of biliary leakage after hepatic resection. A meta-analysis of medium quality studies (individual cohort studies including low quality randomized controlled trials) revealed, that the use of the White-Test leads to a significant reduction of post-operative biliary leakage (OR: 0.3 (95% CI: 0.14, 0.63), p = 0.002). Patients and Methods: Retrospective analysis of patients undergoing liver resection in 2012 and 2013. Patients were split into two groups (+/- intraoperative White-Test). Biliary leakage was defined in accordance with ISGLS de…