There are no conflicts of interest. trial of immediate postoperative pain following single‑incision versus traditional laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Chin Med Westert GP, Drenth JP, et al. Prospective multicentre cohort study of patient‑reported outcomes after cholecystectomy for uncomplicated symptomatic cholecystolithiasis. of pain perception and tramadol consumption using intravenous patient‑...

INTRODUCTION: Mouret introduced laparoscopic cholecystectomy in 1987. It has rapidly replaced open cholecystectomy as the standard treatment (1) and considered The Gold standard treatment for symptomatic gallstone disease (2) Laparoscopic cholecystectomy showed higher benefits for patients with lower prevalence of postoperative complications, feeding earlier, shorter mean hospital stay and equi...

HYPOTHESIS Tube cholecystostomy followed by interval laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a sale and efficacious treatment option in critically ill patients with acute cholecystitis. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study within a 4 1/2%-year period. SETTING University hospital. PATIENTS Of 324 patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy, 65 (20%) had acute cholecystitis; 15 of these 65 pat...

results sixty patients completed the study. patients in the hydrocortisone group had no statistically significant abdominal and shoulder pain scores compared to the bupivacaine group. the patients were similar regarding postoperative analgesic requirements, return of bowel function, nausea and vomiting. no adverse effect was detected in either group. background postoperative pain is a major com...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy (SILC) has recently become a topic of interest among types of minimally invasive surgery. METHODOLOGY We developed a novel "marionette method"technique for performing SILC. Two 5 mm trocars were placed through a 1.5 cm transumbilical incision. In addition, a nylon suture with a laparoscopic sliding knot was used to tighten the fundu...

.. Introduction: Acute biliary pancreatitis is a serious complication of biliary calculous disease and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Incidence is more often in females and cause is the gall stones in majority of the cases. Definitive treatment is cholecystectomy and with the advancement of minimal invasive surgery, laparoscopic cholecystectomy has been considered as a ...

Cholecystectomy is associated with increased risk in patients with liver cirrhosis. Moreover, cirrhosis and portal hypertension have been considered relative or absolute contraindication to laparoscopic cholecystectomy. As experience with laparoscopic cholecystectomy increased, we decided to treat cirrhotic patients via this approach. Between January 1994 and April 1995, nine patients with a Ch...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Although many advantages of laparoscopic method in regard to open one have been already proved, both surgical methods may cause a certain number of complications. The goal of the study is to answer the question: Is Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (LC) safer and more satisfactory method than open cholecystectomy (OC) concerning number, type and seriousness of complications...

conclusions intraperitoneal bupivacaine administration at the beginning and end of laparoscopic cholecystectomy reduced only visceral and shoulder pains at the 4th postoperative hour, but had no effect on reducing neither ponv, nor opioid demand, during the first four postoperative hours. results there were no demographic data differences between groups. no differences were found between the tw...