Laparoscopic cholecystectomy: 3 years of experience at a university hospital
Mayol Martínez, J.; Vincent Hamelin, E.; Martínez-Sarmiento, J.; Ortiz Oshiro, E.; Moreno Tello, B.; Tamayo Fernández, F.J.; Orega López, D.; Alvarez Fernández-Represa, J.
Revista Clinica Espanola 194(8): 616-619
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0014-2565 PMID: 7938842 Document Number: 422942
We analyse the first 174 patients treated with laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) and their follow-up results. Average age was 57 years. Intraoperative cholangiography was not done in anyone. Conversion rate into other forms of intervention was 6.3%. The rate of common bile duct injury has been null. Total morbidity was 6.3%. Two cases of pulmonary embolism and two biliary leakages stand out in the postoperative morbidity. There was no death. After a follow-up period of up to 36 months, only 1 case of residual choledocholithiasis was registered, and it was cured with endoscopy. In this series morbid-mortality figures are low. LC is a safe procedure in the treatment of cholelithiasis, even in older patients.