Dlc Group Paper

In the ELC group, one patient reported postoperative mild biliary colic, compared with 27 patients in the DLC group (1.4% vs. 44.3%, p<0.0001). LC was scheduled for all patients in both groups. In ELC group, it was completed successfully in 68 patients and 2 operations were converted to open surgery due to severe adhesions and difficult visualization of Calot’s triangle and uncontrolled bleeding from an aberrant artery. In DLC group, it was completed successfully in 60 patients and 1 patient was converted to open surgery due to severe adhesions and difficult dissection of Calot’s triangle. The mean difficulty of cholecystectomy scale was 5.3 and 4.9 in patients who underwent ELC and DLC respectively. However it was higher in the early group, it was statistically insignificant (p=0.74).

There was no statistically significant difference in the cholecystectomy related complication rates between the two groups (7.1 vs. 5%, p=0.67). There was no difference between the two groups in the length of index admission (mean of 4.2 days in the early group and 3.7 days in the delayed group, p=0.21), but the total length of hospital stay is statistically longer in the DLC group compared with the ELC group (6.9 ± 2.6 vs. 4.4 ± 1 days; p= 0.01). In DLC group, the mean of index admission length was 3.7 ± 0.5 days, the mean of readmissions length due to pre-cholecystectomy gallstone related events was 1.9 ± 0.4 days, and the mean for cholecystectomy was 2.3 ± 0.4 days. There was no difference regarding ICU admission between both