World Journal of Emergency Surgery (Jun 2020)
Acute cholecystitis during COVID-19 pandemic: a multisocietary position statement
- Fabio Cesare Campanile,
- Mauro Podda,
- Alberto Arezzo,
- Emanuele Botteri,
- Alberto Sartori,
- Mario Guerrieri,
- Elisa Cassinotti,
- Irnerio Muttillo,
- Marcello Pisano,
- Riccardo Brachet Contul,
- Giancarlo D’Ambrosio,
- Diego Cuccurullo,
- Carlo Bergamini,
- Marco Ettore Allaix,
- Valerio Caracino,
- Wanda Luisa Petz,
- Marco Milone,
- Gianfranco Silecchia,
- Gabriele Anania,
- Antonino Agrusa,
- Salomone Di Saverio,
- Salvatore Casarano,
- Caterina Cicala,
- Piero Narilli,
- Sara Federici,
- Massimo Carlini,
- Alessandro Paganini,
- Paolo Pietro Bianchi,
- Adelona Salaj,
- Andrea Mazzari,
- Roberto Luca Meniconi,
- Alessandro Puzziello,
- Giovanni Terrosu,
- Belinda De Simone,
- Federico Coccolini,
- Fausto Catena,
- Ferdinando Agresta
Affiliations
- Fabio Cesare Campanile
- Division of General Surgery, San Giovanni Decollato-Andosilla Hospital
- Mauro Podda
- Department of Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Cagliari, Policlinico Universitario di Monserrato “Duilio Casula” University of Cagliari
- Alberto Arezzo
- Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Torino
- Emanuele Botteri
- General Surgery, ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia
- Alberto Sartori
- Department of General Surgery, Ospedale di Montebelluna
- Mario Guerrieri
- Department of General Surgery, Università Politecnica delle Marche
- Elisa Cassinotti
- Chirurgia Generale, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
- Irnerio Muttillo
- Department of General and Emergency Surgery, Ospedale San Filippo Neri
- Marcello Pisano
- Department of General Surgery, Ospedale San Marcellino di Muravera
- Riccardo Brachet Contul
- Department of General and Emergency Surgery, Ospedale Regionale Umberto Parini
- Giancarlo D’Ambrosio
- Department of General Surgery, Surgical Specialties and Organ Transplantation
- Diego Cuccurullo
- Department of General Surgery, Ospedali dei Colli Monaldi Hospital
- Carlo Bergamini
- Emergency Surgery Unit, Careggi Hospital
- Marco Ettore Allaix
- Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Torino
- Valerio Caracino
- 2° General Surgery, Hospital “Spirito Santo”
- Wanda Luisa Petz
- Department of Surgery, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS
- Marco Milone
- Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Federico II University of Naples
- Gianfranco Silecchia
- Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, University La Sapienza of Rome
- Gabriele Anania
- Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, University of Ferrara
- Antonino Agrusa
- Department of General and Emergency Surgery, University of Palermo
- Salomone Di Saverio
- Department of Surgery, University of Insubria
- Salvatore Casarano
- Operating theatre, Pia Fondazione Panico Hospital
- Caterina Cicala
- Operating theatre, Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli IRCSS
- Piero Narilli
- Division of General Surgery, Casa di Cura Nuova Itor
- Sara Federici
- Division of General Surgery, Casa di Cura Nuova Itor
- Massimo Carlini
- Department of Surgery, Sant’Eugenio Hospital
- Alessandro Paganini
- Department of Surgery “Paride Stefanini”, La Sapienza University of Rome
- Paolo Pietro Bianchi
- Department of General and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Misericordia Hospital
- Adelona Salaj
- Department of General and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Misericordia Hospital
- Andrea Mazzari
- Department of Mini-Invasive and General Surgery, Cristo Re Hospital
- Roberto Luca Meniconi
- Department of Surgery, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital
- Alessandro Puzziello
- Department of General Surgery, Salerno University Hospital
- Giovanni Terrosu
- Department of General Surgery, Clinica Chirurgica, University of Udine
- Belinda De Simone
- Department of Visceral Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Poissy/Saint-Germain-en-Laye
- Federico Coccolini
- Emergency Surgery Unit and Trauma Center, Pisa University Hospital
- Fausto Catena
- Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Maggiore Hospital
- Ferdinando Agresta
- Department of General Surgery, Ospedale Civile
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13017-020-00317-0
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 15,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 5
Abstract
Abstract Following the spread of the infection from the new SARS-CoV2 coronavirus in March 2020, several surgical societies have released their recommendations to manage the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the daily clinical practice. The recommendations on emergency surgery have fueled a debate among surgeons on an international level. We maintain that laparoscopic cholecystectomy remains the treatment of choice for acute cholecystitis, even in the COVID-19 era. Moreover, since laparoscopic cholecystectomy is not more likely to spread the COVID-19 infection than open cholecystectomy, it must be organized in such a way as to be carried out safely even in the present situation, to guarantee the patient with the best outcomes that minimally invasive surgery has shown to have.
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