Ben-Ishay O, Zeltser M, Kluger Y. Utility of routine blood tests after elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy for symptomatic gallstones. World J Gastrointest Surg 2017; 9(6): 149-152 [PMID: 28690774 DOI: 10.4240/wjgs.v9.i6.149]
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Offir Ben-Ishay, MD, Surgical Oncology, Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Surgery Service, Department of General Surgery, Division of Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, 8 Ha’Aliyah street, Haifa 35254, Israel. o_ben-ishay@rambam.health.gov.il
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
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Case Control Study
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World J Gastrointest Surg. Jun 27, 2017; 9(6): 149-152 Published online Jun 27, 2017. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v9.i6.149
Utility of routine blood tests after elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy for symptomatic gallstones
Offir Ben-Ishay, Marina Zeltser, Yoram Kluger
Offir Ben-Ishay, Marina Zeltser, Yoram Kluger, Surgical Oncology, Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Surgery Service, Department of General Surgery, Division of Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa 35254, Israel
Author contributions: Ben-Ishay O contributed to study design, interpretation of data, statistical analysis, and drafting of the manuscript; Zeltser M collected data; Kluger Y critically approved the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The study was approved by the Institutionsl Review Board.
Informed consent statement: Due to the retrospective nature of the study it was exempt from obtaining informed consent.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Offir Ben-Ishay, MD, Surgical Oncology, Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Surgery Service, Department of General Surgery, Division of Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, 8 Ha’Aliyah street, Haifa 35254, Israel. o_ben-ishay@rambam.health.gov.il
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Received: October 25, 2016 Peer-review started: October 28, 2016 First decision: December 1, 2016 Revised: March 23, 2017 Accepted: April 23, 2017 Article in press: April 25, 2017 Published online: June 27, 2017 Processing time: 233 Days and 8.2 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the procedure of choice for patients with symptomatic gallstones. Although some patients will need overnight observation many of the younger patients, with low body mass index (BMI), that did not have severe gallbladder infection may be performed under day surgery, in institutions that have the necessary setup. The current study show that postoperative blood analyses does not predict nor correlate with postoperative complications and has no impact on outcome. The only independent predictors of complications on multivariate analysis are BMI and drain placement that was used a surrogate for technical difficulty during surgery. Intuitively length of surgery is thought to be in correlation with technical difficulty. In centers were supervised residents perform high percentage of the operations, length of surgery does not correlate with difficulty or post operative complications and by itself does not seem to indicate need for postoperative blood analyses.
