Laparoscopic cholecystectomy : initial report from the medical services : Bahrain defence force

Abstract EN

This report is our early experience with laparoscopic checystectomy for 20 symptomatic cholelithiasis patients.

All patients had a pre-operative history consistent with symptomatic gallstone disease which was confirmed with sono-graphy.

There was س mortality or morbidity associated with using this technique.

Postoperative analgesic requirements are remarkably low.

Most patients were discharged during the first postopera-tive day and resumed normal activities within one week.

It was concluded that laparoscopic hlecystectomy resulted in reduced postoperative pain and hospitalisation, and a more rapid return to normal activity.

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy was first performed by Mouret in 1987, and first described in the literature by Dubois in 1989.'د Since the introduction oflaparoscopic cholecystectomies, it has rapidly become the procedure of choice for symptomatic cholelithiasis.