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What necessitates the conversion to open cholecystectomy? A retrospective analysis of 5164 consecutive laparoscopic operations

OBJECTIVE: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the gold standard for the surgical treatment of gallbladder disease, but conversion to open cholecystectomy is still inevitable in certain cases. Knowledge of the rate and impact of the underlying reasons for conversion could help surgeons duri...

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Autores principales: Genc, Volkan, Sulaimanov, Marlen, Cipe, Gokhan, Basceken, Salim Ilksen, Erverdi, Nezih, Gurel, Mehmet, Aras, Nusret, Hazinedaroglu, Selcuk M
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Publicado: Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3072001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21552665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1807-59322011000300009
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author Genc, Volkan
Sulaimanov, Marlen
Cipe, Gokhan
Basceken, Salim Ilksen
Erverdi, Nezih
Gurel, Mehmet
Aras, Nusret
Hazinedaroglu, Selcuk M
author_facet Genc, Volkan
Sulaimanov, Marlen
Cipe, Gokhan
Basceken, Salim Ilksen
Erverdi, Nezih
Gurel, Mehmet
Aras, Nusret
Hazinedaroglu, Selcuk M
author_sort Genc, Volkan
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description OBJECTIVE: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the gold standard for the surgical treatment of gallbladder disease, but conversion to open cholecystectomy is still inevitable in certain cases. Knowledge of the rate and impact of the underlying reasons for conversion could help surgeons during preoperative assessment and improve the informed consent of patients. We decided to review the rate and causes of conversion from laparoscopic to open cholecystectomy. METHOD: This study included all laparoscopic cholecystectomies due to gallstone disease undertaken from May 1999 to June 2010. The exclusion criteria were malignancy and/or existence of gallbladder polyps detected pathologically. Patient demographics, indications for cholecystectomy, concomitant diseases, and histories of previous abdominal surgery were collected. The rate of conversion to open cholecystectomy, the underlying reasons for conversion, and postoperative complications were also analyzed. RESULTS: Of 5382 patients for whom LC was attempted, 5164 were included this study. The overall rate of conversion to open cholecystectomy was 3.16% (163 patients). There were 84 male and 79 female patients; the mean age was 52.04 years (range: 26–85). The conversion rates in male and female patients were 5.6% and 2.2%, respectively (p<0.001). The most common reasons for conversion were severe adhesions caused by tissue inflammation (97 patients) and fibrosis of Calot's triangle (12 patients). The overall postoperative morbidity rate was found to be 16.3% in patients who were converted to open surgery. CONCLUSION: Male gender was found to be the only statistically significant risk factor for conversion in our series. LC can be safely performed with a conversion rate of less than 5% in all patient groups.
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spelling pubmed-30720012011-04-08 What necessitates the conversion to open cholecystectomy? A retrospective analysis of 5164 consecutive laparoscopic operations Genc, Volkan Sulaimanov, Marlen Cipe, Gokhan Basceken, Salim Ilksen Erverdi, Nezih Gurel, Mehmet Aras, Nusret Hazinedaroglu, Selcuk M Clinics (Sao Paulo) Clinical Science OBJECTIVE: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the gold standard for the surgical treatment of gallbladder disease, but conversion to open cholecystectomy is still inevitable in certain cases. Knowledge of the rate and impact of the underlying reasons for conversion could help surgeons during preoperative assessment and improve the informed consent of patients. We decided to review the rate and causes of conversion from laparoscopic to open cholecystectomy. METHOD: This study included all laparoscopic cholecystectomies due to gallstone disease undertaken from May 1999 to June 2010. The exclusion criteria were malignancy and/or existence of gallbladder polyps detected pathologically. Patient demographics, indications for cholecystectomy, concomitant diseases, and histories of previous abdominal surgery were collected. The rate of conversion to open cholecystectomy, the underlying reasons for conversion, and postoperative complications were also analyzed. RESULTS: Of 5382 patients for whom LC was attempted, 5164 were included this study. The overall rate of conversion to open cholecystectomy was 3.16% (163 patients). There were 84 male and 79 female patients; the mean age was 52.04 years (range: 26–85). The conversion rates in male and female patients were 5.6% and 2.2%, respectively (p<0.001). The most common reasons for conversion were severe adhesions caused by tissue inflammation (97 patients) and fibrosis of Calot's triangle (12 patients). The overall postoperative morbidity rate was found to be 16.3% in patients who were converted to open surgery. CONCLUSION: Male gender was found to be the only statistically significant risk factor for conversion in our series. LC can be safely performed with a conversion rate of less than 5% in all patient groups. Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo 2011-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3072001/ /pubmed/21552665 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1807-59322011000300009 Text en Copyright © 2011 Hospital das Clínicas da FMUSP http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Clinical Science
Genc, Volkan
Sulaimanov, Marlen
Cipe, Gokhan
Basceken, Salim Ilksen
Erverdi, Nezih
Gurel, Mehmet
Aras, Nusret
Hazinedaroglu, Selcuk M
What necessitates the conversion to open cholecystectomy? A retrospective analysis of 5164 consecutive laparoscopic operations
title What necessitates the conversion to open cholecystectomy? A retrospective analysis of 5164 consecutive laparoscopic operations
title_full What necessitates the conversion to open cholecystectomy? A retrospective analysis of 5164 consecutive laparoscopic operations
title_fullStr What necessitates the conversion to open cholecystectomy? A retrospective analysis of 5164 consecutive laparoscopic operations
title_full_unstemmed What necessitates the conversion to open cholecystectomy? A retrospective analysis of 5164 consecutive laparoscopic operations
title_short What necessitates the conversion to open cholecystectomy? A retrospective analysis of 5164 consecutive laparoscopic operations
title_sort what necessitates the conversion to open cholecystectomy? a retrospective analysis of 5164 consecutive laparoscopic operations
topic Clinical Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3072001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21552665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1807-59322011000300009
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