[Surgical tactics in acute cholecystitis]

The results of treatment of 1,843 patients with acute cholecystitis are analysed. Operations were carried out on 766 patients, postoperative lethality 3.5%. A more active surgical tactics was accepted in the last 3 years, as the result of which postoperative lethality fell to 1.2% in 1988. Cholecystostomy was conducted under local anesthesia in patients who were in a grave condition, and in elderly and old--aged patients with an operative risk. The authors analyse 71 cases in which the late-term results were studied, they proved to be good on the main.