LAPROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY AND RELATED COMPLICATIONS AT MAYO HOSPITAL LAHORE

Objective: The aim of this research work was to find out the difficulties of surgical removal of the gall bladder from laparoscopy and related reasons at Mayo Hospital Lahore. Methodology: This research work was carried out from July 2015 to June 2017 in the duration of two years. The information of all the participants who were going under the surgical removal of the gall bladder from laparoscopy during the period of this research work & satisfying the selection standards was gathered and its analysis carried out retrospectively. Results: There were two hundred and sixteen patients who underwent the surgical removal of the gall bladder from laparoscopy. Females were greater in number than male patients. The total rate of complication was five percent. Some of the complications are bleeding in four patients from cystic artery & gall bladder, infection of port site was also in four patients, injury of bile duct in two patients & colonic injuries in only one patient. The most frequent reasons of these difficulties were unintentional damage to cystic artery, leakage of the bile which is infected and put a cut on the bile duct in error. Conclusions: Haemorrhage and infection of port site were the most frequent difficulties with the least common complications of injuries of bile duct & colonic wounds. The most frequent reason of bleeding was the injury to the cystic artery , whereas the most common reason of the infection in the port site was the gross spillage of the bile which was infectious.