Operating During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Emerging Indication for Minilaparotomy Cholecystectomy

COVID-19 has required changes in the practice of surgery to reduce the risk of transmission of the virus. Proposed mitigation strategies include avoidance of aerosol-generating procedures such as laparoscopy. We report two cases where minilaparotomy cholecystectomy was employed to treat benign bilia...

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Autores principales: Milne, David M, Jarvis, Johnathan K, Franklin, Rensi E, Thomas, Dexter, Naraynsingh, Vijay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33354446
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11500
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author Milne, David M
Jarvis, Johnathan K
Franklin, Rensi E
Thomas, Dexter
Naraynsingh, Vijay
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description COVID-19 has required changes in the practice of surgery to reduce the risk of transmission of the virus. Proposed mitigation strategies include avoidance of aerosol-generating procedures such as laparoscopy. We report two cases where minilaparotomy cholecystectomy was employed to treat benign biliary disease during the pandemic. A review of the literature supports the use of this surgical technique during the COVID-19 pandemic until laparoscopy can be proven to be safe.
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spelling pubmed-77442162020-12-21 Operating During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Emerging Indication for Minilaparotomy Cholecystectomy Milne, David M Jarvis, Johnathan K Franklin, Rensi E Thomas, Dexter Naraynsingh, Vijay Cureus General Surgery COVID-19 has required changes in the practice of surgery to reduce the risk of transmission of the virus. Proposed mitigation strategies include avoidance of aerosol-generating procedures such as laparoscopy. We report two cases where minilaparotomy cholecystectomy was employed to treat benign biliary disease during the pandemic. A review of the literature supports the use of this surgical technique during the COVID-19 pandemic until laparoscopy can be proven to be safe. Cureus 2020-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7744216/ /pubmed/33354446 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11500 Text en Copyright © 2020, Milne et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Operating During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Emerging Indication for Minilaparotomy Cholecystectomy
title Operating During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Emerging Indication for Minilaparotomy Cholecystectomy
title_full Operating During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Emerging Indication for Minilaparotomy Cholecystectomy
title_fullStr Operating During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Emerging Indication for Minilaparotomy Cholecystectomy
title_full_unstemmed Operating During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Emerging Indication for Minilaparotomy Cholecystectomy
title_short Operating During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Emerging Indication for Minilaparotomy Cholecystectomy
title_sort operating during the covid-19 pandemic: an emerging indication for minilaparotomy cholecystectomy
topic General Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744216/
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