TABLE I.
Patient No. | Age, y | Sex | Recognition at LC | Conversion to open | Onset of symptoms, d | Symptoms and signs | Operative treatment before referral and days after LC | Referral after LC, d |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 42 | M | No | No | 3 | Bile peritonitis | None | 10 |
2 | 27 | F | No | No | 3 | Bile peritonitis | None | 14 |
3 | 61 | M | No | No | 1 | Bile leak through drain | None | 6 |
4 | 26 | F | No | No | 14 | Bile peritonitis | Laparotomy, 20 | 24 |
5 | 73 | M | No | No | 21 | Recurrent cholangitis | None | 225 |
6 | 60 | F | No | No | 10 | Jaundice, fever, bile peritonitis | None | 16 |
7 | 73 | F | Yes? | Yes | 1 | GOT 6,798, GPT 4,916 | Hepaticojejunostomy, 0 | 5 |
8 | 67 | M | No | No | 2 | Bile leak through drain, jaundice | None | 2 |
9 | 37 | F | No | No | 14 | Cholangitis, jaundice | Hepaticojejunostomy, 14 | 17 |
10 | 36 | F | Yes? | Yes | 6 | Jaundice, fever, bile peritonitis | Laparotomy, stent, duct-to-duct, 6 | 8 |
11 | 46 | M | Yes | Yes | — | — | T-tube, duct-to-duct* right hepatic artery repair, 0 | 0 |
12 | 42 | F | No | No | 1 | Bleeding | None | 1 |
13 | 33 | F | Yes | Yes | — | — | None | 0 |
14 | 80 | M | No | No | 90 | Jaundice | None | 120 |
15 | 34 | F | No | No | 14 | Bile peritonitis, fever, subhepatic abscess | None | 27 |
Duct-to-duct, end-to-end choledocho-choledochostomy.
LC, Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; GOT, glutamine-oxaloacetic transaminase; GPT, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase; y, year, and d, day.