%0 Journal Article
%T Colecistectom¨ªa videolaparosc¨®pica de urgencia en el paciente geri¨¢trico
%A Almaguer Orges
%A Noel
%A Pe£¿a Pupo
%A Nerza Enid
%A Rodr¨ªguez Pascual
%A Yasm¨ªn
%A Pe£¿a P¨¦rez
%A Carlos Rafael
%A Batista Feria
%A Rosell
%A Pupo Carracedo
%A Ranier Nelson
%J Revista Cubana de Cirug£¿-a
%D 2011
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X objective: to describe the behavior of patients aged 60 and more underwent to videolaparoscopy emergency cholecystectomy. methods: a retrospective, longitudinal and descriptive study was conducted in 91 patients aged 60 and more underwent to such procedure from january, 2001 to december, 2008 in the general service of "luc¨ªa i£¿iguez land¨ªn" hospital of holgu¨ªn province. results: elderlies were the 26 % of patients underwent to this procedure and more than 70 % correspondent to the third age group (60-75 years) with predominance of female sex. the 21.9 % of patients had associated diseases where the high blood pressure was the more frequent one. the intervention time was of 60 min in the 70.3 % of patients; the conversion rate was of 6.5 %, morbidity was of 3.2 % and mortality was of 1 %. conclusions: emergency videolaparoscopy cholecystectomy in elderly may be successfully done.
%K videolaparoscopy cholecystectomy
%K elderly
%K acute cholecystitis.
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