Pribram operation in patients with cholelithiasis as alternative to cholecystectomy
Abstract
Pribram technique was used in 22 patients, 1.74% of a total of 1264 cholecystectomies, during the period January 1989-July 1995 at the Second Surgical Department of Surgery of the Greek Red Cross Hospital. Nine patients were presented with surgical complications of cholelithiasis on a ground of cirrhosis, six patients with acute cholecystitis (complicated or not), four were suffering of chronic cholecystitis, two of cholelithiasis and bleeding disorder caused by chronic renal failure and anticoagulant therapy and one patient presented with intrahepatic gallbladder. Cirrhosis and portal hypertension were the main criteria for applying Pribram technique in order to reduce perioperative bleeding which is the main cause for morbidity and mortality of the high-risk cirrhotic patients. Pribram technique was used on patients suffering of acute cholecystitis (especially the complicated cases) or chronic cholecystitis presenting with severe inflammatory or fibrotic changes in Calot's triangle, ...
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