Complications of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Our Experience from a Retrospective Analysis.

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the intraoperative and postoperative complications of laparoscopic cholecystectomy, as well as the frequency of conversions.

Material And Methods: Medical records of 740 patients who had laparoscopic cholecystectomy were analysed retrospectively. We evaluated patients for the presence of potential risk factors that could predict the development of complications such as age, gender, body mass index, white blood cell count and C-reactive protein (CRP), gallbladder ultrasonographic findings, and pathohistological analysis of removed gallbladders.

[A prospective evaluation of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the treatment of chronic cholelithiasis--a five-year experience].

Introduction: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a method of choice in the treatment of symptomatic cholecystolithiasis because of less postoperative pain, shorter hospitalization and lower cost of treatment. The study was aimed at analysing the outcome of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in patients surgically treated for chronic calculous cholecystitis (symptomatic cholelithiasis).

Material And Methods: The research was done in the period from December 2003 to December 2008.

[Laparoscopic cholecystectomy of acute cholecystitis].

Introduction: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a method of choice for surgical treatment of diseases of gallbladder. Although most surgeons today use laparoscopic cholecystectomy in treatment of severe acute cholecystitis, most surgeons still consider acute cholecystitis a relevant contraindication for laparoscopic cholecystectomy because of "confused" anatomy and "severe" pathology. Aim of the study was to analyze laparoscopic cholecystectomy outcomes in treatment of acute cholecystitis.