Cholecystitis
Conditions
Keywords
Acute Choleystitis, Cholecystostomy, Tokyo Guidelines, Non-Surgical Treatment, Mortality, High-risk patient
Brief summary
Acute cholecystitis (AC) is the second most frequent pathology in Surgical Emergencies; laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is the gold standard treatment, but not all patients are fit for surgery at the diagnostic. Percutaneous Cholecystostomy (PC) is an alternative to LC but has high comorbidity. This study aims to analyse the complications of PC and review its indications in the literature.
Detailed description
It is a single-centre retrospective study of 2000 acute cholecystitis in adults from January 2011 to december 2023, including demographyc characteristics, comorbidy severity defined as Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), ASA Score, Tokyo Guidelines severity classification,the indicatioons for a PC and local complications of PC.
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* All patients admited in the Hospital del Mar with the diagnostic of an Acute Cholecystitis
Exclusion criteria
* Acute cholangitis * Acute Pancreatitis * Neoplasia * Chronic Cholecystitis * Patients under 18 yearls old * Pregnancy
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Complications | 2011-2023 | The main outcome measure is the complications due to the PC treatment. |
| Mortality | 2011-2023 | The second main outcome measure is the mortality in patients with an Acute Cholecystitis and its cause. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Types of cholecystostomy | 2011-2023 | There are different indications for cholecystostomy. To do a description of them. |
| Surgical Rescue | 2011-2023 | To study the patients that needed a surgical treatment and those who could be operated after recovery from sepsis and descrive the outcomes of all of them within the Clavien-Dindo Classification. |