Publication Name	World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Manuscript ID	30987
Country	Israel

Category	Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Manuscript Type	Case Control Study
Article Title	Utility of routine blood tests after elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy for symptomatic gallstones
Manuscript Source	Invited Manuscript
All Author List	Offir Ben-Ishay, Marina Zeltser and Yoram Kluger
Funding Agency and Grant Number
Corresponding Author	Offir Ben-Ishay, MD, Surgical Oncology, Pancreatic and Hepatobiliary Surgery Service, Department of General Surgery, Division of Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, 8 Ha’Aliyah street, Haifa 35254, Israel. o_ben-ishay@rambam.health.gov.il
Key Words	Cholecystectomy; Blood tests; Laparoscopy; Complications; Post-operative; Gallstones; symptomatic
Core Tip	Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the procedure of choice for patients with symptomatic gallstones. Although some patients will need overnight observation many of the younger patients, with low body mass index (BMI), that did not have severe gallbladder infection may be performed under day surgery, in institutions that have the necessary setup. The current study show that postoperative blood analyses does not predict nor correlate with postoperative complications and has no impact on outcome. The only independent predictors of complications on multivariate analysis are BMI and drain placement that was used a surrogate for technical difficulty during surgery. Intuitively length of surgery is thought to be in correlation with technical difficulty. In centers were supervised residents perform high percentage of the operations, length of surgery does not correlate with difficulty or post operative complications and by itself does not seem to indicate need for postoperative blood analyses.
Citation	Ben-Ishay O, Zeltser M, Kluger Y. Utility of routine blood tests after elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy for symptomatic gallstones. World J Gastrointest Surg 2017; 9(6): 149-152

Received	2016-10-26 09:26
Peer-Review Started	2016-10-28 17:10
To Make the First Decision	2016-12-01 14:26
Return for Revision	2016-12-07 09:32
Revised	2017-01-01 15:42
Second Decision	2017-04-14 10:41
Accepted by Journal Editor-in-Chief
Accepted by Company Editor-in-Chief	2017-04-24 17:25
Articles in Press	2017-04-24 17:25
Publication Fee Transferred
Edit the Manuscript by Language Editor
Typeset the Manuscript	2017-06-08 02:02

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