Laparoscopic Treatment оf Mirizzi Syndrome

Abstract

Background. Mirizzi syndrome (MS) is a relatively rare complication of cholelithiasis, which occurs in a wide range from 0.2 to 5% according to different authors. Today, the surgical treatment of MS remains a challenge.Aim of study. To determine the possibilities of laparoscopic interventions in the surgical correction of various types of MS.Material AND methods. The work is based on a prospective analysis of cases of laparoscopic treatment of 19 patients with MS who were treated in the emergency surgery departments of the Republican Scientific Center for Emergency Medical Care in 2017–2019. This is 22.9% of all admitted patients (83) with MS during this period. Type 1 MS was diagnosed in 3 patients (15.7%), type 2 was diagnosed in 16 patients (84.2%).Results. In all cases of type 1 MS, laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed. A new method for the correction of type 2 MS by forming a sleeve from the gallbladder wall was suggested, which was performed in 10 patients with good results. In the postoperative period, no nonspecific complications were observed in patients undergoing laparoscopic interventions. One patient had residual choledocholithiasis, which was managed by day 5 after the surgery with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and endoscopic papillosphincterotomy and the removal of the calculus from the common bile duct. The average duration of stay of patients in a hospital bed was 10.8 days. Fatal outcome was observed in 1 case (5.3%).Conclusion. 1. The inclusion of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography and magnetic resonance imaging cholangiography in the diagnostic scheme improves the accuracy and quality of recognition of Mirizzi syndrome and allows the indications for the use of video laparoscopy to be evaluated. 2. Indication for laparocopic treatment of type 2 Mirizzi syndrome is the presence of a single calculus in the supraduodenal part of the common bile duct, which makes it possible to reduce the number of conversion to laparotomy. 3. In cases of type 1 Mirizzi syndrome, the operation of choice is laparoscopic cholecystectomy. 4. The operation of choice in patients with type 2 Mirizzi syndrome is laparoscopic subtotal cholecystectomy, fistula plasty with a gallbladder flap on the Kehr’s T-tube drain with the formation of a “cystic duct”-type sleeve.