[The acute calculus cholecystitis in the elderly patients. (Prognosis and therapy (author's transl)]

The Author describes 151 cases of acute cholecystitis in patients ranging from 70 to 95 years of age. He examines then the literature on the subject paying attention to the treatment of cases of acute cholecyst disease in aged patients. The Author shows the outstanding features of these cases in synoptic tables and discusses them making a comparison with the materials and results of the colleagues. Leaving necessarily aside the urgent operations a discussion is made on the choice between a cholecyst extirpation and a cholecyst anastomosis. On course, advantages and disadvantages of such operations in aged and weakened patients are taken into account. Death percentage results to be equal to 26,4%, a figure which is not far from that furnished by other statistics, bearing in mind the age of the patients.