[Acute cholecystitis in the early postoperative period]

The authors observed 6 patients, who developed acute cholecystitis at day 2--5 after the operation. In 3 patients, an operation on the abdominal organs was performed, in 3--the urologic intervention. The leading symptoms of postoperative cholecystitis are the following: epigastric pain, stable intestinal paresis, high body temperature. The authors recommend a wide use of the ultrasound investigation of the abdominal cavity, and in its negative results, or in absence of the apparatus--laparoscopy. All the patients were reoperated. One patient died.