Abdominal symptoms and its outcome in gallbladder diseases following routine and emergency cholecystectomy
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Early and delayed cholecystectomy, SymptomsAbstract
Background: Gallstones constitute for the most common causes of biliary tract diseases in the adult population. The study thus aims to describe the persistence rate of abdominal symptoms in patients after elective cholecystectomy and to understand which symptoms, improve after cholecystectomy.
Methods: This observational study is based in Melmaruvatthur Medical College and Research Institute where 69 patients were a part of the study. A pre and post structured questionnaire was used to assess the decrease in the rate of symptoms. After fully informed and written consent the study participants were interviewed questioneired, examined according to the preformed and pretested proforma, patients with a clinical and ultrasonographic diagnosis of gallstones filled out a structured questionnaire on abdominal pain symptoms and functional gastrointestinal disorder before and at six months after cholecystectomy.
Results: From the observed chi square value of 9.315 and p value of 0.002 which is less than 0.01 so it is declared that there is an association between the cholecystectomy and symptoms in the post-surgical group.
Conclusions: The findings of the study thus suggest that while much of the findings lean toward ELC being better than DLC, the significance values show that no difference exist between the two. The study therefore states that more research is required to ascertain whether ELC or DLC is better at reducing the symptoms associated with gall bladder disease.
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