Keywords
Cholecystitis
Gall bladder Disease
Laparoscopy
How to Cite
Abstract
Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is the gold standard modality for the treatment of gall bladder diseases. Sometimes LC needs to be converted to open due to intraoperative complications. A few factors like age, body weight, comorbidities, ASA score, and surgeons’ experience will warn about the possible complications and need for conversion to open. Prior prediction of the difficulties will warn the surgeon to prepare accordingly. The patient’s family will also be counseled regarding it.
Objectives: To identify the possible factors for predicting difficult LC.
Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in the general and laparoscopic surgery department at Nobel Medical College Teaching Hospital, Biratnagar, Nepal. Simple random sampling technique was utilised in this retrospective analysis. Data were taken from 2021 May to 2022 May after institutional ethical clearance. Descriptive statistics were assessed done using SPSS v.26.
Results: A total of 230 cases were included and analysed in the study. The incidence of difficult LC was 17.8%. An overall conversion rate of LC to open cholecystectomy in difficult LC was seen in 1.3% of the cases. Intraoperative complications were not seen in 87.8% of the patients. The mean duration of hospital stay in difficult LC cases was five days.
Conclusion: Predicting difficult LC will not only warn surgeons to be prepared for the possible difficulties but will also help in counseling patients’ families regarding the intraoperative complications and the possible need for the conversion to open.
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