Author(s)

Hicham El Bouhaddouti, Khalid Mazine, Abdesslam Bouassria, Ouadii Mouaqit, Elbachir Benjelloun, Abdelmalek Ousadden, Khalid Ait Taleb

Department of Visceral Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Fez, University Hospital Hassan II—Fes, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco.

Hemobilia is the result of a pathological communication between bile duct and intra or extrahepatic vessel. 40% to 60% of the haemobilia cases are Iatrogenic, and the other causes are either vascular malformations or hepatic blunt trauma. We describe the case history of a patient in which laparoscopic cholecystectomy was complicated 3 months later by massive hemobilia. The cause of haemorrhage was a fistula between the principal bil duct and the right hepatic artery. This complication was successfully managed by surgery and angiographic embolization with full recovery of the patient.

Hemobilia, Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Arteriography

El Bouhaddouti, H. , Mazine, K. , Bouassria, A. , Mouaqit, O. , Benjelloun, E. , Ousadden, A. and Taleb, K. (2014) Hemobilia Due to an Iatrogenic Arteriobiliary Fistula Complicating Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Case Report. Open Journal of Gastroenterology, 4, 275-278. doi: 10.4236/ojgas.2014.46040.