Laparoscopic cholecystectomy using the PINPOINT(®) Endoscopic Fluorescence Imaging System with intraoperative fluorescent imaging for acute cholecystitis: A case report

We report on a laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) for acute cholecystitis (AC) using the bright field/full-color fluorescence laparoscope system PINPOINT(®) (Novadaq, Mississauga, ON, Canada). The patient was an 85-year-old man who was diagnosed with moderate AC. Indocyanine green (ICG) was administered just before surgery, and we used only PINPOINT(®) to perform the LC. The advantage of this procedure is that it can be performed while viewing ICG fluorescence in the cystic duct. Since the gallbladder is imaged with this technique, it is also advantageous from the perspective of deciding at which layer to detach the gallbladder from the liver. The operative time was 81 minutes, and blood loss was 5 ml. There were no perioperative complications, and the patient was discharged on post-operative day 6.