RF patients after resection of the gall bladder – is it always postcholecystectomy syndrome?

Abstract

The article analyzes the causes of recurrent abdominal pain and dyspeptic phenomena in 657 patients after cholecystectomy. The authors found out that after gall bladder resection 48% of patients complain of pain and dyspepsia. Postcholecystectomy syndrome (dysfunction of Oddi’s sphincter) is diagnosed in 15.2% of the patients. The proportion of diseases of the esophagus and organs of the gastroduodenal zone is 36.4%, of the hepato-pancreato-biliary one is 38.3 per cent. Diagnostic errors at the preoperative stage and/or tactical ones during cholecystectomy amounted to 7.8%.

Keywords

• cholelithiasis
• cholecystectomy
• postcholecystectomy syndrome