An observational study in Acute Cholecystitis, sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 19 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-03-12.
Sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes · Observational
The management of these often frail elderly patients, with more comorbidities and declining functional capacities, is more complex and justifies a specific, tailored approach.
Age is also associated with an increasing prevalence of gallstones. The disadvantages of "cold" surgery (longer hospital stay, higher cost, risk of disease recurrence in the interim, difficult surgery with more scar tissue due to repeated inflammation) have to be weighed against the high operative risk in the case of emergency surgery, leading to strict criteria for early cholecystectomy.
These criteria are rarely met in geriatric patients, who thus enter a hospital cycle whose impact on morbidity and mortality, as well as on loss of autonomy, has been demonstrated in this population. What's more, the deteriorating general condition of frail elderly patients means that a number of them end up being definitively rejected for surgery, despite an initial strategy of cold cholecystectomy.
266 studies on the registry are indexed under Cholecystitis; 46 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 424 is above the median of 200 across 90 observational studies indexed under Cholecystitis.
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Patients hospitalized in the digestive surgery department and geriatric perioperative unit of the CHU de Nîmes with a diagnosis of acute cholecystitis.
Exclusion Criteria:
Rate of patients with an initial cold cholecystectomy strategy who did not undergo surgery, died or underwent emergency surgery
Percentage
Time frame: Up to 6 months, from date of first collection to date of end of collection
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