Abstract

FERNANDEZ SANTIESTEBAN, Llipsy et al. Reintervenciones de urgencia en cirugía videolaparoscópica. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2003, vol.42, n.4, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-2945.

Laparoscopy is not a new way to establish the diagnosis of abdominal emergencies. The experience has showed that it is not only feasible, but more advantageous to carry out the definitive treatment of the cases complicated in elective video-assisted laparoscopic surgery by using this approach, provided that the patients' conditions (general and local) allow it. A prospective, longitudinal and descriptive study of the emergency reoperations was conducted by using the video-assisted laparoscopic technique, from October, 1995, to March, 2001. The results obtained in 13 of these patients reoperated on by minimal invasive surgery at "Hermanos Ameijeiras" Clinical and Surgical Hospital were presented. Among the previously performed operations that gave place to the present complication, we found video-assisted laparoscopic cholecystectomy (11 cases) and gynecological operations (2 cases). 6 hemoperitoneums, 5 bilirhachias and 2 intraabdominal abscesses were diagnosed. The treatment applied to all cases was lavage and drainage of the cavity. The previous procedure was associated with a retrograde endoscopic cholangiopancreatography in 3 patients. The average surgical time was 46 min and the hospital stay was less than 72 hours in 5 cases. The video-assisted laparoscopic treatment may be successfully used in patients complicated in the elective minimal invasive surgery

Keywords : REOPERATION; LAPAROSCOPY; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE.