Clinical Considerations of Cholelithiasis with Secial Reference to Operative Death

Two hundred and fifteen patients who had received surgical treatment for cholelithiasis from January, 1965 to December, 1978 were discussed. Surgical treatments included choledochotomy plus sphincteroplaty in 136, cholecystectomy plus choledochotomy in 58, cholecystectomy plus choledochotomy plus sphincteroplaty in 19 and reconstruction of the common bile dile duct in 2. Out of 215 patients, six died immediately after opera operation, slowing a mortality rate of 2.7%. Of them three died of acute renal failure, one post operative bleeding, another acute hepatic failure and the remaining one the rupture of esophageal varix…