background: inflammatory response following surgical trauma has long been a matter of study. results, however, have been varied. we sought to assess changes in the levels of proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in patients undergoing laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy and their impact on the clinical outcome of patients concerning the postoperative pain score. methods: the study i...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy first introduced in 1987, is becoming more and more popular and now it has become gold standard in symptomatic gallstone disease. The current descriptive study is carried out in Department of General Surgery, Ayub Teaching hospital, Abbottabad to evaluate the result of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in symptomatic gallstones disease in our set up with speci...

Objectives: To analyze the complications of first 400 laparoscopic cholecystectomies (LC) for patients with symptomatic gall stone disease at a tertiary care hospital. Study Design: Quasi-experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: PNS Shifa Karachi and CMH Lahore, Pakistan from Nov 2009 to Jan 2013. Patients and Methods: A prospective analysis of complications occurring in first 400 conse...

INTRODUCTION A introdução da técnica laparoscópica em 1985 foi um fator importante na colecistectomia por representar técnica menos invasiva, resultado estético melhor e menor risco cirúrgico comparado ao procedimento laparotômico. AIM To compare laparoscopic and minilaparotomy cholecystectomy in the treatment of cholelithiasis. METHODS A systematic review of randomized clinical trials, whi...

OBJECTIVES To assess the safety and feasibility of laparoscopic cholecystectomy as a day-case procedure. METHODS All consecutive patients who were admitted to the day-surgery unit for laparoscopic cholecystectomy at the Department of Surgery, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from July 2009 to June 2013 were considered for this retrospective study. The medical records were reviewed...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate a new magnetic surgical system during reduced-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a prospective, multicenter clinical trial. BACKGROUND Laparoscopic instrumentation coupled by magnetic fields may enhance surgeon performance by allowing for shaft-less retraction and mobilization. The movements can be performed under direct visualization, generating different angles of tr...

BACKGROUND Choleliathisis, in patients with renal transplantation, carries high risk of complications. We, at our institute, perform prophylactic cholecystectomy for aymptomatic gallstones in patients with renal transplantation. AIM To present our experience of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in patients with kidney transplantation. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Data, in the form of, demographics, medi...