Epigastric Pain Three Months after Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Pain after Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Background and Objectives: Although laparoscopic cholecystectomy results in less pain than open cholecystectomy, it is not a pain free procedure. A clinical trial was designed to assess pain after LC in terms of types of pain, intensity and factors that may influence it. Methods: A prospective study on pain was performed on all patients undergoing the operation over the period of 1.5 year (n = ...

Recurrent abdominal pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Comparing Postoperative Pain After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.

who compared postoperative pain after traditional and single‑incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy (SILC), it was showed that SILC resulted in a slightly less immediate postoperative pain, but pain scores at 24 hours, 7 days, and 1–6 months after surgery were not different between the two operations. Many things of this study were well done. The authors used a double‑blinded, randomized, and co...

Intraperitoneal Hydrocortisone plus Bupivacaine administration For Pain Relief after Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy, A Comparison with Bupivacaine Alone

 Introduction: shorter hospital stay and less pain in comparison to open surgery considered to be major benefits for laparoscopic cholecystectomy. We compared the effect of intraperitoneal hydrocortisone plus bupivacaine with bupivacaine alone on pain relief following laparoscopic cholecystectomy.  Methods: Sixty two patients participated in this double-blind, randomized clinical trial. Pati...

Biloma after laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Methods-Results: Over the past two-year period the same surgeon performed 180 laparoscopic cholecystectomies without any intra-operative event. All patients but three had an uneventful postoperative course (morbidity 1.6%). In 3 cases (women, 72-74-88 years-old) the US-scanning revealed a sub-hepatic biloma manifested by persistent right upper quadrant or epigastric pain, abdominal distention, ...