Abstract

REYES CARDERO, Jorge; LEON GOIRE, Walter; SOTO GOMEZ, Efraín  and  NOVO GARCIA, Rafael Leandro. Morbilidad y mortalidad por afecciones benignas del sistema biliar: Nuestra experiencia. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 1997, vol.36, n.1, pp. 28-29. ISSN 1561-2945.

A descriptive and prospective study on morbidity and mortality of bening diseases of the biliary tract was performed on 4 266 patients operated on at "Saturnino Lora" Provincial Teaching hospital, Santiago de Cuba with the aim of assessing the incidence of different variables. The most frequent diseases were found to be cholecystitis and cholecystosis in female patients, and a great number of surgically treated patients were over 60 years of age. The most frequently complications found within the preoperative period were: cholelithiasis and acute pancreatitis; during the perioperative period the most common were the complications of the gall bladder, the bile duct, and the liver, and during the immediate portoperative period the most frequent complications were found to be nonspecific which prevailed over the specific ones. Mortality rate was considered to be within acceptable limits, and the syndrome of multiple organ failure was found to be the principal cause of death among aged patients

Keywords : BILIARY TRACT DISEASES [epidemiology]; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES [mortality]; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES [surgery]; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS.