Laparoscopic cholecystectomy : a retrospective study

Abstract EN

-Background : Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (LC) has become the gold standard treatment for gallstone disease ever since its widespread acceptance in the early 90s.

LC is a safe procedure that is very commonly performed.

Objective : To evaluate the standard care of LC in terms of morbidity, mortality, complication and length of hospital stay.

Setting: Surgical Department, King Hamad University Hospital, Bahrain.

Design : A Retrospective Study.

Method : LC patients were reviewed from July 2012 to September 2014.

The following data were documented : personal characteristics, hospital stay both pre and postoperative complications, conversion to open, biliary injury and wound infection.

Result: Two hundred thirty-nine patients had LC; 185 (77.41 %) were females and 54 (22.59 %) were males.

The mean age of patients was 38.71; the youngest patient was 17 years and the oldest was 71 years.

The technique of 4-port standard LC was used on 232 (97.07 %) patients and 7 (2.93 %) patients had a single port LC.

Seven (2.93 %) LC were converted to open, 6 due to distorted anatomy and the other was due to vascular injury.

Six (2.51%) patients had wound infection and 2 (0.83 %) had biliary tract injury.

The mean hospital stay was 3.23 days.

There was no mortality recorded during the study