The timing of laparoscopic cholecystectomy after ERCP should be individualized for each patient. Several factors should be considered. First, preoperative ERCP is indicated only in those patients with ...

A new study published in the BMC Surgery revealed that elevated preoperative C-reactive protein (CRP) levels are ...

Rates of bile duct injury a year after gallbladder removal surgery were lower with laparoscopic procedures than robotic-assisted ones, a retrospective study of Medicare beneficiaries found.

When surgeons removed Carol Hurlburt's diseased gallbladder in 2005, they had to cut a long, gory incision in her abdomen, and she was still hurting when her husband developed his own gallbladder ...

(HealthDay)—The first 48 hours appears to be the optimal time for performing early laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) for acute cholecystitis, according to research published online Dec. 17 in JAMA ...

Just as laparoscopic surgery reduced the overall burden of surgery, it has been expected that using a single port for this commonly performed operation would result in further improvement. However, ...

Changing from laparoscopic to classic, open operation is called conversion. Switching the operative approach can be due to various factors and should not be assumed a complication of laparoscopic ...

Background: The use of elective cholecystectomy has increased dramatically following the widespread adoption of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. We sought to determine whether this increase has resulted ...

SMS hospitalJaipur: The city’s Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital successfully performed a rare, high-risk laparoscopic surgery on a 106-year-old woman, removing her gallbladder and extracting stones from ...

Laparoscopy was one of the most significant surgical advances of the twentieth century and laparoscopic cholecystectomy has been recognized since 1987, when Phillipe Mouret performed the first ...