Clinical Trial: Multicenter Cohort of 768 High-risk Patients With Symptomatic Gallstones, Adding Cholecystectomy Did Not Increase Length of Stay or Perioperative Morbidity, Supporting it as a Safe Single-stage Option

U.S., Aug. 20 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07772440) titled 'Multicenter Cohort of 768 High-risk Patients With Symptomatic Gallstones, Adding Cholecystectomy Did Not Increase Length of Stay or Perioperative Morbidity, Supporting it as a Safe Single-stage Option' on Aug. 11.

Brief Summary: Despite numerous single-center reports and meta-analyses, few studies have directly compared outcomes of LSG with versus without concomitant cholecystectomy exclusively in a high-risk cohort as defined above. To the best of our knowledge, only one prior study (Dincer and Dogan, 2019) specifically examined this high-risk population, and it included only 27 patients in the concomitant group. This multicenter r...