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Laparoscopic Completion Cholecystectomy: An Audit from the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (AHPBA) Caribbean Chapter.
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- Back to the battlefield: minimally invasive management of postcholecystectomy remnants: a systematic appraisal of safety and efficacy.Surgery today · 2026Pooled it
- Open versus laparoscopic completion cholecystectomy in patients with previous open partial cholecystectomy: a retrospective comparative study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Article
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- Safety profile and outcomes of intraoperative ultrasound-guided remnant cholecystectomy.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2023Article
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9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Objective Removal of a gallbladder remnant occasionally becomes necessary when retained stones become symptomatic. Although the laparoscopic approach has been described, it is not yet considered the standard of care. We sought to determine the outcomes after completion cholecystectomies in the resource-poor setting within the Caribbean. Methods We carried out an audit of the databases from all hepatobiliary surgeons in the Anglophone Caribbean. We identified all patients who had completion cholecystectomy over the five-year period from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2018. Retrospective chart review was performed to extract the following data: patient demographics, diagnoses, presenting complaints, operative details, morbidity, mortality, and clinical outcomes. Descriptive statistics were generated using Statistical Packaging for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 12.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago IL) Results There were 12 patients who were subjected to laparoscopic completion cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis (7), severe biliary pancreatitis (3), and chronic cholecystitis (2) secondary to stones in a gallbladder remnant. There were 10 women and two men at a mean age of 47.4 years (range 32-60; standard deviation (SD) +/-7.81; median 48; mode 52) and a mean body mass index (BMI) of 30.8 Kg/M
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