Management Strategy for Acute Cholecystitis in the Digestive Surgery Department and Geriatric Unit in Subjects Over and Under 75 Years

NCT ID: NCT06873295

Last Updated: 2025-03-12

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

424 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-03-22

Study Completion Date

2024-10-22

Brief Summary

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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.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Acute Cholecystitis

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

OTHER

Study Time Perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients over 18 years of age.
* Diagnosis of acute cholecystitis.
* Hospitalization in the digestive surgery department and geriatric perioperative unit of Nîmes University Hospital.

Exclusion Criteria

* Patients under 18 years of age.
* Opposition of the patient to his inclusion in the study after sending the letter of information and non-opposition.
Minimum Eligible Age

19 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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Simonet Anne Clarisse

Nîmes, , France

Site Status

Countries

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France

Other Identifiers

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Local /2023

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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