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Emergency laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute empyema of the gallbladder in pregnancy

Muthukumaran Rangarajan1, Chinnusamy Palanivelu, Madhupalayam Velusamy Madankumar

  • 1Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Gem Hospital, Ramnathapuram, Coimbatore, India. rangy68@gmail.com

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan : JCPSP
|June 8, 2007
PubMed

This report describes a pregnant patient on whom emergency laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed for empyema gallbladder. The patient was in her second trimester of pregnancy. The distended gallbladder was decompressed before dissection was commenced. There was no mortality, morbidity or conversion. There were no complications for either mother or child related to general anesthesia.

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