Unveiling Postpancreatectomy Hemorrhage: Bleeding Sources, Cryptogenic Events, and Predictors of Severity from a Large Cohort Analysis

Unveiling Postpancreatectomy Hemorrhage: Bleeding Sources, Cryptogenic Events, and Predictors of Severity from a Large Cohort Analysis

This study of 1,722 pancreaticoduodenectomies identifies key bleeding sources and predictors for severe postpancreatectomy hemorrhage, highlighting the roles of bile leak and infection in patients with pancreatic fistula and redefining cryptogenic hemorrhage as a lower-risk subgroup.