Cholecystectomy for cholelithiasis to a woman with totalis situs inversus

Authors

  • Joaquin Márquez Hernández
  • Heriberto Hooker Jesse
  • Yamilet Adán Martínez
  • Bárbaro A. Armas Pérez

Keywords:

DeCS, situs inversus totalis, situs inversus y colelitiasis, colecistectomía convencional, colecistectomía video asistida.

Abstract

Background: a brief revision about two medical subjects was made: totalis situs inversus and gallstone disease and its clinical characteristics, as well as its regular treatment that includes the video-assisted cholecystectomy and the traditional one. A references has been made about this clinical association found in a woman with this congenital anomaly since her childhood, the totalis situs inversus.
Objective: to present this patient with both associated deceases that are uncommon and of medical interest.
Clinical case: a regular patient was treated, white skin color, female, 38 years old, with good previous health condition in spite of suffering of a major congenital abnormality. She was six month suffering symptoms of dyspepsia and biliary colic repeated in the left abdomen and diagnosed with only gallstone by clinical method, ultrasonography and radiology, getting confirmed this way the totalis situs inversus, association that is uncommon. An interconsultation with Cardiology and Anesthesiology was made, and getting previously the informed consent, an open cholecystectomy was performed with good evolution until her final discharge.
Conclusions: the evolution in the intraoperative and later in the immediate and mediate postoperative was good, and after six month of treatment, the patient is asymptomatic and has gained body weight.
DeCS: CHOLECYSTECTOMY; SITUS INVERSUS; CHOLELITHIASIS; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; CASE REPORTS.

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2017-03-27

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Márquez Hernández J, Hooker Jesse H, Adán Martínez Y, Armas Pérez BA. Cholecystectomy for cholelithiasis to a woman with totalis situs inversus. Arch méd Camagüey [Internet]. 2017 Mar. 27 [cited 2025 Aug. 2];21(2):264-70. Available from: https://revistaamc.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/4710

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Vol. 21 No. 2 (2017)

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Case Reports

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