BACKGROUND In patients with symptomatic cholelithiasis, laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is the standard method of treatment. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has a low rate of postoperative infections probably owing to smaller wounds and minimal tissue damage compared with the open procedure. OBJECTIVES This study assessed the effect of cefazolin prophylaxis on postoperative infection in patien...

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is preferred in the treatment of symptomatic cholecystolithiasis. Gallstone spillage is not uncommon, and there have been reports of associated complications. We report a case of a free intraperitoneal gallstone, left inadvertently during LC, which developed an inflammatory phlegmon with abscess containing gallstone, causing extraluminal compression on the dist...

Aim: To determine the safety and benefits of single port laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Materials and methods: A search for randomized controlled trials comparing single port laparoscopic cholecystectomy with conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy was conducted using Google scholar, HighPress and SCOPUS. Results: Single port laparoscopic cholecystectomy has a longer operating time, with equiv...

Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) using surgical electrocautery is considered to be the gold standard procedure for treatment of uncomplicated cholecystitis and cholelithiasis. The objective current study was evaluate effectiveness safety Harmonic scalpel, an advanced laparoscopic technique when compared electrocautery. Methods: From June, 2021 through December 2022, a total 50 pati...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is the gold standard for gallstone disease. Many studies have confirmed the safety and feasibility of LC and have shown that it is comparable regarding complications to open cholecystectomy (OC). The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of LC including safety, feasibility in a resource-poor setting like Yemen, and also to compare the outcom...

BACKGROUND Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) after laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has multifactorial etiology. Pain and use of opioids are among the important factors. OBJECTIVES The present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of intrapritoneal (IP) injection of bupivacaine on PONV. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was a double-blind randomized clinical trial, conducted on 66 patients a...

To compare the results of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) and open cholecystectomy (OC) for symptomatic cholelithiasis in elective surgery we performed a prospective matched-cohort study. Hundred consecutive patients who underwent LC in the period Sept. 1990-June 1992, and 100 patients who were age and sex matched and underwent an elective OC in the foregoing two years (1989-1990) were studie...

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is one of the most common surgical procedures performed globally but continues to carry to an unacceptably high risk of iatrogenic bile duct injury (BDI). In recent years several centres have proposed Near Infrared Fluorescent Cholangiography (NIRFC) with Indocyanine Green (ICG) as a potential method of dynamic intraoperative extra hepatic bile duct mapping. We...

HYPOTHESIS The advent of laparoscopy has changed the paradigm of surgical training and care delivery for the treatment of patients with acute cholecystitis (AC). DESIGN Retrospective data collection and analysis. SETTING Hospital admissions with a primary diagnosis of AC at a tertiary care center from January 1, 2002, to January 1, 2007. PATIENTS During the study period, 923 patients were...