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SOBERON VARELA, Iris et al. Results of videoassisted laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the elderly. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2007, vol.46, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-2945.

From its inception and as a result of its undeniable outcomes, videoassisted laparoscopic surgery has turned into the most used method in treating gallbladder pathologies. With the objective of analyzing the behaviour of aged patients diagnosed with cholecystopathy and operated on by videoassisted laparoscopy in our country, we conducted a prospective descriptive study of 60 years-old and over patients, who had been surgically treated from February 2005 to June 2006. Gallbladder lithiasis was the most frequent surgical finding (134 patients; 84,8%). Conversion of laparoscopic cholecystectomy to open surgery was made in 2 patients (1,26%). There were three major complications (1.89%) but the rest of patients did not show any complication (155 patients, 98.1%). Our series had neither surgical wound sepsis nor deaths. Videoassisted laparoscopic cholecystectomy proved to be better tolerated and to have less complications than open surgery. It is recommended for the elderly whose morbidity and mortality rates are higher and lenght of stay at hospital is longer when open cholecystectomy is applied

Palavras-chave : videoassisted laparoscopic surgery; cholecystectomy; elderly.

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