Preoperative admission is non-essential in most patients receiving elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy: A cohort study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 We evaluated conventional overnight-stay laparoscopic cholecystectomy, focusing on the preoperative admission day, to assess the feasibility of implementing daycare laparoscopic cholecystectomy, which is currently underutilized in developing and some ...
Suppadech Tunruttanakul +4 more
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Animation Supported Consent Before Elective Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy. [PDF]
World J Surg, 2022 AbstractBackgroundPatient understanding of surgical procedures is often incomplete at the time they are performed, invalidating consent, and exposing healthcare providers to complaints and claims of failure to inform. Remote consultations, language barriers and patient factors can hinder an effective consent pathway.
Doganay E, Wald DS, Parker S, Hughes F.
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Elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy: recurrent biliary admissions predispose to difficult cholecystectomy. [PDF]
Surg Endosc, 2022 Abstract Introduction Patients undergoing elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy (ELLC) represent a heterogeneous group making it challenging to stratify risk. The aim of this paper is to identify pre-operative factors associated with adverse peri- and post-operative outcomes in patients undergoing ELLC.
Lucocq J, Scollay J, Patil P.
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Aortoenteric fistula following elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy. [PDF]
J Vasc Surg Cases Innov TechWe present the case of a 71-year-old woman with gastrointestinal bleeding 21 days after undergoing elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Initial imaging revealed a pseudoaneurysm of nonaneurysmal infrarenal aorta, managed with an endovascular stent graft.
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GENDER DIFFERENCE IN ELECTIVE LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY FOR CHRONIC CHOLECYSTITIS [PDF]
Basrah Journal of Surgery, 2012 Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is now considered as a treatment of choice for symptomatic gall stones. Although the difference in the outcome, including conversion rate, operation time, hospital stay, complications and the effect of gender, is emphasized ...
Hiwa Omer Ahmed
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Comparative Evaluation of Standard Cholangiography, Intravenous, and Intracholecystic Indocyanine Green Fluorescence Cholangiography During Elective Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Results of a Three-Arm Randomized Trial [PDF]
MedicinaBackground and Objectives: Bile duct injury is a relatively rare, but critical complication of laparoscopic cholecystectomy and is most commonly attributed to misinterpretation of biliary anatomy.
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Patient reported outcomes in elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy. [PDF]
Ann Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg, 2019 Traditional outcome measures (e.g., length of hospital stay, morbidity, and mortality) are used to determine the quality of care, but these may not be most important to patients. It is unclear which outcomes matter to patients undergoing elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy (ELC).
Mak MHW +6 more
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Prophylactic Antibiotics for Elective Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy. [PDF]
Am Surg, 2018 Surgical site infections with elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy are less frequent and less severe, leading some to suggest that prophylactic antibiotics (PA) are no longer indicated. We compared the incidence of surgical site infections before and after an institutional practice change of withholding PA for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy ...
Smith JP +4 more
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Acute cholecystitis in elderly patients; Management and outcome [PDF]
Al-Azhar International Medical Journal, 2021 Background: The most prevalent consequence of cholelithiasis is acute cholecystitis (AC), which is also one of the most common diseases needing emergency surgery in the elderly.
Mahmoud Mohamed +2 more
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ACCURACY OF RANDHAWA AND PUJAHARI PREOPERATIVE SCORING SYSTEM IN PREDICTION OF DIFFICULT LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY IN EGYPTIAN POPULATION [PDF]
Ain Shams Medical Journal, 2021 Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the procedure of choice for management of symptomatic gallstone disease and one of the most commonly performed operations by general surgeons.
Ahmed Kamal +3 more
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