Complications of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy at Liaquat University, Jamshoro

The main objective was to determine the complications of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) and its causes at Liaquat University of Medical and Heath Sciences, Jamshoro. It was a prospective study carried out from February 2008 to January 2011. Data of all patients undergoing elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy during the study period and fulfilling the selection criteria was collected and entered in standardized proforma and analyzed on SPSS 10. A total of 100 patients underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy with an overwhelming majority of females (87 out of 100). The age range from 22 to 60 years, mean age being 38 years. The overall complication rate was 9%. The complications included bleeding (4/100, 4%) from cystic artery and gall bladder bed, port site infection (4/100, 4%) One patient developed collection in pouch of Morrison and one patient developed stitch granuloma. There was no bile duct injury and colonic injury. The common causes of these complications were accident injury to cystic artery and gross spillage of infected bile. Bleeding and Port site infections were the commonest complications. The commonest cause of bleeding was cystic artery injury whereas the commonest cause of port site infection was gross spillage of infected bile.