[The choice of surgical strategy for patients with obstructive jaundice and high risk of multi-organ insufficiency syndrome].

We examined 128 patients with obstructive jaundice of non-tumoral genesis that were surgically treated. We studied the immune status and plasma concentration of interleukine-8 in pre-operation period in order to predict the polyorganic insufficiency (PI) risk. Depending on the results obtained, patients were divided into groups defined as those of low or high risk of PI.