[Personal experience with laparoscopic cholecystectomy in acute cholecystitis]

Authors refer about their experiences with operations of acute cholecystitis by laparoscopy. They have evaluated retrospectively 1600 cases of laparoscopic cholecystectomies (LCHE) realized in the period from 1994 to 2000. In 302 (18.8%) cases was realized laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis, which was confirmed by histopathological finding. During the mentioned period a total number of laparoscopic cholecystectomies for acute cholecystitis (n = 302) rise a number of classical cholecystectomies for the same diagnosis (n = 227). Very important role by authors take early dispatching a patient to a department of surgery and early estimation the diagnosis with consecutive laparoscopic treatment. Rates of peroperation, postoperation complications and reoperations in laparoscopic surgery of acute cholecystitis is comparable with elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy.