Introduction:

the high frequency of presentation of cholelithiasis and its complications in general surgery consultation, determines a high cholecystectomy practice every year. Objective: to characterize cholecystectomized patients in the General Teaching Hospital Abel Santamaría Cuadrado of Pinar del Río in the period July-December 2018.

Methods:

a descriptive, longitudinal, retrospective observational study was carried out. The universe was constituted by 86 cholecystectomized patients in the period July-December 2018 and the sample, selected intentionally, was 69 who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The variables studied (age, sex, skin color, history of Diabetes Mellitus, type of intervention, transoperative time, hospital stay, antibiotic use, complications, ultrasonographic alterations) were analyzed by descriptive statistics.

Results:

most of the patients were between 40 and 59 years of age (46,4 %); 81,2 % were female and the same number of them underwent laparoscopic surgery. Surgery lasted less than one hour in 60,2 % of the cases and in 46,4 % it was performed urgently.

Conclusions:

patients who underwent cholecystectomy due to gallbladder disorders caused by cholelithiasis are mostly young white-skinned female adults.

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