Management and outcomes of traumatic liver injury: a tertiary care center experience (original) (raw)
Background Trauma is considered a significant public health problem worldwide. Abdominal trauma is generally divided into blunt and penetrating. Blunt trauma could affect any organ, and the sequelae of such injury may not always be clinically apparent. Liver injury is one of abdominal trauma's most critical and fundamental complications. We aimed to investigate the mechanism, type, and extent of injuries for patients with liver trauma and compare the outcomes between operative and non-operative management. Methods This retrospective study analyzed data of patients with liver injuries who presented to King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University from 2016 to 2022. Management included conservative, conservative to laparotomy, laparotomy, and interventional radiological procedures, including hepatic artery angioembolization and percutaneous transhepatic drainage. Injury severity was graded based on the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) liver injury scal...
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