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DE LA CONCEPCION DE LA PENA, Ada Hilda; SOBERON VARELA, Iris; HERNANDEZ VAREA, José Antonio  y  CREMATA BRUNA, Mario. Laparoscopy treatment of acute cholecystitis: Results. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2009, vol.48, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-2945.

INTRODUCTION: From introduction of laparoscopic cholecystectomy, many authors have verified advantages of this technique on open cholecystectomy, and it is consider the standard approach for treatment of non-complicated cholelitiasis. However, there was some resistance by surgeons when to be about the acute cholecystitis. Aim of present paper was to present results achieved with early laparoscopic treatment of acute cholecystitis in our service. METHODS: From a total of 142 patients admitted diagnosed with acute cholecystitis, 49 of them were operated on by means emergent laparoscopic cholecystectomy from February 2003 to February 2007. Five criteria was established for patients selection: start of symptoms before 72 hours, clinical and ultrasound diagnosis of acute cholecystitis, non-dilated main biliary route, lack of suggestive image of choledochal lithiasis, lack of high abdomen surgery, and patients with contraindications for laparoscopic surgery. RESULTS: Average surgical time was of 65 minutes. There was a lesion of main biliary route detected at surgery (choledochal wound), two wound infections, and two patients needed conversion: one by biliary route lesion and another by vesicular roof bleeding. Average hospital stay was or 2, 5 days. There were neither re-interventions nor mortality in this series. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that laparoscopic method in case of acute cholecystitis, when it is early prescribed, is safe and feasible. We suggested that it be the first therapeutical option in these patients.

Palabras clave : Acute cholecystitis; laparoscopic cholecystectomy..

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