Cholecystectomy

Although a restrictive strategy for cholecystectomy reduced the operation rate by 8.3% at 5 years vs. usual care for patients with symptomatic cholelithiasis, the proportion of patients who were pain free did not differ between groups.

Female surgeons had fewer surgical and total complications in elective and acute care cholecystectomies but longer operating times compared with male surgeons, according to data in JAMA Surgery.

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in addition to endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography in patients with acute cholangitis correlated with a decrease in 30-day and 90-day readmission and 30-day mortality, according to study results.

Cholecystectomy in patients with Crohn’s disease was associated with markers of disease activity and worse quality of life in a multi-year study, according to research from Digestive Disease Week.