Fikret Aksoy1, Gökhan Demiral2, Özgür Ekinci3. 1. General Surgery Department, Istanbul Oncology Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. 2. General Surgery Department, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University Educational and Research Hospital, Rize, Turkey. Electronic address: drgokhandemiral@yahoo.com. 3. General Surgery Department, Goztepe Education and Research Hospital, Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Biliary pancreatitis (BP) constitutes 30-55% of all cases of acute pancreatitis. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the gold standard for the surgical treatment of gallbladder disease. We aimed to compare and evaluate the relation between the timing of LC and the rates and reasons of conversion to open surgery (OS) after BP. METHODS: Data were collected of patients who presented for the first time with acute BP and underwent LC. The patients were divided into two groups: early cholecystectomy (Group 1), patients who underwent cholecystectomy during the first pancreatitis attack upon admission and before discharge from hospital (1-3 days); and late cholecystectomy (Group 2), patients who received medical treatment during their first pancreatitis episode and underwent surgery after 4-10 weeks. Sex, Ranson scores, American Society of Anesthesiology scores, and conversion reasons were compared. RESULTS: Group 1 and Group 2 included 75 patients (20 men, 55 women) and 87 patients (25 men, 62 women), respectively. The mean age was 44.7 years (range, 21-82 years). Obscure anatomy with adhesions was detected in 16 patients (5 in Group 1, 11 in Group 2) as the leading cause of conversion to OS, but it was not statistically significant (p=0.054). Acute inflammation with empyema and peripancreatic liquid collection was observed in 14 patients (12 in Group 1, 2 in Group 2), and conversion to OS was statistically significantly higher in Group 1 (p=0.016). CONCLUSION: Timing of LC does not influence the conversion rates to OS after BP.
BACKGROUND:Biliary pancreatitis (BP) constitutes 30-55% of all cases of acute pancreatitis. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the gold standard for the surgical treatment of gallbladder disease. We aimed to compare and evaluate the relation between the timing of LC and the rates and reasons of conversion to open surgery (OS) after BP. METHODS: Data were collected of patients who presented for the first time with acute BP and underwent LC. The patients were divided into two groups: early cholecystectomy (Group 1), patients who underwent cholecystectomy during the first pancreatitis attack upon admission and before discharge from hospital (1-3 days); and late cholecystectomy (Group 2), patients who received medical treatment during their first pancreatitis episode and underwent surgery after 4-10 weeks. Sex, Ranson scores, American Society of Anesthesiology scores, and conversion reasons were compared. RESULTS: Group 1 and Group 2 included 75 patients (20 men, 55 women) and 87 patients (25 men, 62 women), respectively. The mean age was 44.7 years (range, 21-82 years). Obscure anatomy with adhesions was detected in 16 patients (5 in Group 1, 11 in Group 2) as the leading cause of conversion to OS, but it was not statistically significant (p=0.054). Acute inflammation with empyema and peripancreatic liquid collection was observed in 14 patients (12 in Group 1, 2 in Group 2), and conversion to OS was statistically significantly higher in Group 1 (p=0.016). CONCLUSION: Timing of LC does not influence the conversion rates to OS after BP.
Authors: Gustavo Angel Gómez-Torres; Jaime González-Hernández; Carlos Rene López-Lizárraga; Eliseo Navarro-Muñiz; Odeth Sherlyne Ortega-García; Francisco Manuel Bonnet-Lemus; Francisco Manuel Abarca-Rendon; Liliana Faviola De la Cerda-Trujillo Journal: Medicine (Baltimore) Date: 2018-11 Impact factor: 1.817