[Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in patients with liver cirrhosis].

Aim: To assess efficacy and safety of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in patients with liver cirrhosis.
Material and Methods: 46 patients with liver cirrhosis Child-Pugh class A and B underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy for the period from August 2001 to December 2015. Indications for surgery were acute calculous cholecystitis in 21 (45.6%) patients and chronic calculous cholecystitis in 25 (54.4%) patients.
Results: Mean surgery time was 75 minutes. Conversion to open surgery was required in 2 patients. Postoperative complications including bleeding, liver dysfunction, ascites, wound complications were observed in 11 (23.9%) patients. There were no deaths. Mean hospital-stay time was 2.5 days.
Conclusion: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy may be successfully performed in carefully selected patients with compensated cirrhosis. The advantages of minimally invasive technique are less blood loss, surgery time and hospital-stay.