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BACKGROUND AND METHODS: The aim of this study was the evaluation of the management of cholecysto- and choledocholithiasis and outcome of -laparoscopic as well as open cholecystectomy (CHE) and common bile duct (CBD) exploration in Bavaria, Germany. A written questionnaire -in-cluding 201 structured items was sent to all 180 hospitals and departments performing gen-eral or abdominal surgery in Bavaria. RESULTS: The response rate was 60 %. A total of 16 615 operations for gallstone disease including 16 051 cholecystectomies and 453 CBD explo-ra-tions with or without cholecystectomy were -reported. 88 % of all cholcystectomies started -laparoscopically, the conversion rate was 5.6 %. The Veres needle (69 %), 4 trocar techniques and electrosurgical hook knife were reported as standard procedures. A retrieval bag was used by 53 % of all surgeons. The overall complication rate for cholecystectomy was 5.46 % including 0.15 % -major bile duct injuries. Relaparoscopy was performed in 0.35 %, relaparotomy in 0.44 % and postoperative treatment by ERC in 1.45 %. The overall hospital mortality rate was 0.13 %. When choledocholithiasis was suspected, a two-stage management ("therapeutic splitting") with preoperative ERC was preferred (99 %). The conversion rate of simultaneous laparoscopic CHE+CBD exploration was 43 %. CONCLUSION: These results allow an estimation of the frequency and overall risks in surgical therapy for gallstones. At present, new techniques like combined laparoscopic and endoscopic proce-dures, microinstruments or N.O.T.E.S do not play a significant role in Germany.
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Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic , Cholecystectomy , Gallstones/surgery , Cholecystectomy/mortality , Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic/mortality , Gallstones/mortality , Germany , Health Surveys , Hospital Mortality , Humans , Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care/statistics & numerical data , Postoperative Complications/etiology , Postoperative Complications/mortality , Postoperative Complications/surgery , ReoperationABSTRACT
Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) was initially introduced for super-obese patients in a two-step concept in order to reduce the perioperative risk. Many years before a very similar technique - the Magenstrasse and Mill (M & M) operation - was developed by Johnston in Leeds / UK as a "more physiological" bariatric procedure with acceptable weight loss, while preserving gastric emptying mechanisms and thus minimising possible side-effects such as vomiting, dumping and diarrhoea, which are common complications of gastric bypass procedures. The following manuscript analyses the current literature and our own preliminary results and parallels publications of the M & M procedure. Until now numerous modifications (e. g., bougie size and residual volume, stapler technique, use of buttress mate-rial) have been reported. However, reported -morbidity and mortality rates were equal to those of gastric banding and gastric bypass (RYGB). In conclusion, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) has now proven to be as effective as the RYGB for weight loss over a three-year period. Control of hunger and feeling of fullness are -reported to be superior compared to gastric band-ing. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is no longer an experimental procedure. It should be accepted as one of the effective standard procedures for surgical treatment of morbid obesity.
