title: [Late results from operative treatment of complicated chronic cholecystitis].
abstract: Assessment is made of the long-term results in 75/232 patients with chronic cholecystitis, operated in the surgical clinic of the Military hospital--Plovdiv over the period 1991 through 1995. To analyze the questionnaire study results, the patients are divided up into three groups, as follows: Group one--61 cases (81/3%) where the complaints are completely eliminated. Group two--13 cases (17/1%) where the condition shows improvement, but during physical atress and nonobservance of the dietary regimen, heaviness and blunt pain in the right subcostal area occur. Group three--one patient with persisting complaints and lethal outcome. Evaluation of the long-term results shows that the positive effect attained is persistent and durable. Cholecystectomy is taken to be as the most rational and often used operative intervention.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sirakov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D016896:Treatment Outcome