European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Abstract

In India, the incidence of the disease is on the increase due to the change in diet patterns and
the greater awareness of the problems. A gallstones survey limited to railroad workers
conducted in 1966 utilizing oral cholecystography had suggested that gallbladder stones
occurred 7 times more commonly in North Indian workers than in South Indian workers.
Patients were selected according to inclusion and exclusion criteria after taking informed
consent and reassuring them keeping confidentiality of their data. In all the 200 patients,
patients diagnosed as cholelithiasis and who underwent laparoscopiccholecystectomyor
converted to open-cholecystectomywere included in the study. After explaining complete
details of the procedure and complications to the patients, the surgery was performed under
general anesthesia. In our study out of 200 patients, majority of patients, both male and
female had pain as their chief complaints with total percentage of (62%).Next to pain
majority of patients including males (10) and females (16) Nausea as major complaint
constituting (13%) of total average. Dyspepsia 21 i.e., (10.50%), pain + nausea 15 i.e.,
(7.50%) and pain + jaundice 14(7%) as their chief complaints in decreasing order.