A nomogram predicts postoperative biliary fistula after pancreaticoduodenectomy.

A novel nomogram has been developed to predict postoperative biliary fistula (PBF) risk after pancreaticoduodenectomy. Analyzing data from 196 patients, researchers identified diabetes, low albumin, postoperative gastroparesis, abdominal bleeding, abdominal infection, and pancreatic fistula as independent risk factors. The model demonstrated good discriminative ability with an AUC of 0.807 in the training set and 0.782 in the validation set, indicating its clinical application value for identifying high-risk patients.