Giovanni Domenico Tebala, Amanda Shabana, Mahul Patel, Benjamin Samra, Alan Chetwynd, Mickaela Nixon, Siddhee Pradhan, Bara'a Elhag, Gabriel Mok, Alexandra Mighiu, Diandra Antunes, Zoe Slack, Roberto Cirocchi, Giles Bond-Smith
BACKGROUNDS/AIMS: The standard treatment for acute cholecystitis, biliary pancreatitis and intractable biliary colics ("hot gallbladder") is emergency laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). This paper aims to identify the prognostic factors and create statistical models to predict the outcomes of emergency LC for "hot gallbladder." METHODS: A prospective observational cohort study was conducted on 466 patients having an emergency LC in 17 months. Primary endpoint was "suboptimal treatment," defined as the use of escape strategies due to the impossibility to complete the LC...
January 12, 2024: Annals of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery