COMPLICATIONS OF LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY

Abstract

In recent years, !al?arosopic: surgery has been the most significant advance in gener l_jmrgery. Unfortuna_tely, like all advances in clinical . practice, laparoscopic surgery has created new problems which have to be . .------ considered in the process of evaluation of such a new technique.

Only by an appreciation of the potential complications of a procedure can their overall incidence be reduced to a minimum.

The potential complications of a laparoscopic procedure include . - - -- - - - . -• . those that are inherent to laparoscopy and those are related to the specific . - . - operative procedure.

This study presents an evaluation-o-f the intra-operative and postoperative complications met with in •wo-patients imderg l tg fuur

different laparoscopic p oceduresat Benflii Utiiversity Hospital, namely: ,- - • Laparoscopic cholecystectomy. •- - -- -- • Laparoscopic varicocelectomy.

• Laparoscopic appendectomy.

• Laparoscopic fundoplication.

The complications encountered during this study included the follwing:

A- General complications of Iaparcscopy as:

- Cardiac dysrhythmias.

- Subcutaneous emphysema.