Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the care for acute cholecystitis: a Swedish multicentre retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The present study aimed to investigate if and how the panorama of acute cholecystitis changed in 2020 in Sweden. Seven aspects were identified, the incidence of cholecystitis, the Tokyo grade, the timing of diagnosis and treatment, the proportion treated with early surgery, the proportion of patients treated with delayed surgery, and new complications from gallstones.

Design

Retrospective multicentre cohort study.

Setting

3 hospitals in Sweden, covering 675 000 inhabitants.

Participants

1634 patients with cholecystitis.

Outcomes

The incidence, treatment choice and diagnostic and treatment delay were investigated by comparing prepandemic and pandemic patients.

Results

Patients diagnosed with cholecystitis during the pandemic were more co

SUBMITTER: Osterman E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10689379 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature