[Late results from operative treatment of complicated chronic cholecystitis]

Assessment is made of the long-term results in 75/232 patients with chronic cholecystitis, operated in the surgical clinic of the Military hospital--Plovdiv over the period 1991 through 1995. To analyze the questionnaire study results, the patients are divided up into three groups, as follows: Group one--61 cases (81/3%) where the complaints are completely eliminated. Group two--13 cases (17/1%) where the condition shows improvement, but during physical atress and nonobservance of the dietary regimen, heaviness and blunt pain in the right subcostal area occur. Group three--one patient with persisting complaints and lethal outcome. Evaluation of the long-term results shows that the positive effect attained is persistent and durable. Cholecystectomy is taken to be as the most rational and often used operative intervention.