EARLY LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY IN ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
Objective: To determine the frequency of post operative complications after early Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (LC) for Acute Cholecystitis (AC).
Material and Methods: This descriptive cross sectional study was carried out in Surgical A Unit, Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar from April 2012 to November 2014. A total of 369 patients were included in the study. All patients presented with AC and subjected to early LC. Data regarding age, gender, and main outcome measures such as biliary
leak, hemorrhage, port site infection (PSI) and post-operative vomiting (POV) were collected on the predesigned proforma and analyzed. Frequencies and percentages were calculated for categorical variables such as gender, biliary leak, hemorrhage, PSI and POV while mean ± SD was calculated for continuous variables such as age.
Results: A total of 369 patients were analyzed. The mean age of patients was 41.30 years ± 12.54SD. There were 83 males and 286 females with a M/F ratio of 1:3.45. Biliary leakage was observed in 4 (1.1%) patients. There was uncontrollable
hemorrhage in 2 (0.54%) patients. PSI was observed in 13 (3.5%) patients and POV in 34 (9.2%) patients.
Conclusion: Early laparoscopic cholecystectomy does not increase the complication rates and is a safe and feasible procedure for acute cholecystitis.
Article Details
All articles published in the Journal of Medical Sciences (JMS) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0). Under the CC BY 4.0 license, author(s) retain the ownership of the copyright publishing rights without restrictions for their content, and allow others to copy, use, print, share, modify, and distribute the content of the article even for commercial purposes as long as the original authors and the journal are properly cited. No permission is required from the author/s or the publishers for this purpose. Appropriate attribution can be provided by simply citing the original article. The corresponding author has the right to grant on behalf of all authors, a worldwide license to JMS and its licensees in all forms, formats, and media (whether known now or created in the future), The corresponding author must certify and warrant the authorship and proprietorship and should declare that he/she has not granted or assigned any of the article’s rights to any other person or body.
The corresponding author must compensate the journal for any costs, expenses, or damages that the JMS may incur as a result of any breach of these warranties including any intentional or unintentional errors, omissions, copyright issues, or plagiarism. The editorial office must be notified upon submission if an article contains materials like text, pictures, tables, or graphs from other copyrighted sources. The JMS reserves the right to remove any images, figures, tables, or other content, from any article, whether before or after publication, if concerns are raised about copyright, license, or permissions and the authors are unable to provide documentation confirming that appropriate permissions were obtained for publication of the content in question.