The aim of the study was to evaluate the quality of life in patients with gallstone disease (GSD) in the remote period after cholecystectomy for various forms of surgical intervention and the disease (latent or symptomatic). Also we compared them with the indicators of quality of life of patients with cholecystolithiasis.
Materials and methods: In an open clinical study were surveyed 170 patients with gallstone disease, of which 60 people were operated for gallstone disease, 110 patients had cholecystolithiasis. At 1/3 of patients with gallstone disease was asymptomatic, in 2/3--with clinical manifestations. To assess the quality of life using were validated specific questionnaire for patients with gallstone disease--Gallstone Impact Checklist.
Results: Among all patients with cholelithiasis who underwent cholecystectomy that asked for gastroenterologists help patients the quality of life was significantly worse on the scale of power (26.0 +/- 2.8 points) and the joint account (89.0 +/- 9.6 points) than in patients with stones in the gallbladder (16.5 +/- 2.2 and 61.0 the mini-access (total score 83.6 +/- 13.7 points), did not differed from those after laparoscopic cholecystectomy (85.0 +/- 10.9 points, p > 0.05). For those patients with cholelithiasis in which the disease before surgery were no symptoms quality of life (general account) decreased more significantly (to 29.8%) compared to patients with cholelithiasis who have this disease before the operation proceeded with clinical manifestations (4.1%), when compared with the total score of all examined patients with CL.
Conclusions: Quality of life in patients with gallstone disease in the postoperative period after cholecystectomy was significantly worse than the individual scales of the questionnaire GIC compared to patients with stones in the gallbladder, regardless of the type of operation (from the mini-access or laparoscopic). In this patient with a latent course of gallstone disease before the operation quality of life significantly worse on all scales than patients with clinical symptoms before surgery.