LAPAROSCOPIC LIVER RESECTION VIA LAPAROSCOPY: EXPERIENCE IN OUR CENTRE

INTRODUCTION Laparoscopic liver surgery has undergone a great evolution in recent years, allowing increasingly complex resections without increasing complications and with evident postoperative benefits. Our purpose is to analyze our initial experience in this type of resection. MATERIAL AND METHODS We performed a retrospective observational study analyzing 41 patients who underwent liver resections by laparoscopy in our centre from March 2019 to January 2020. RESULTS The mean age of the patients was 64.5 years (SD 11) with a mean BMI of 27.56 (from 4.59). The most common surgical indication was colon cancer metastasis (41.4%), followed by hepatocarcinoma (36.6%) and usually single lesions (75.6%). The procedure passed without complications except in the case of 5 patients who required conversion to open surgery (12.5%) and 3 patients (7.5%) who required intraoperative transfusion. During the postoperative period 4 patients (9.8%) presented complications and all of them were classified as Clavien-Dindo II. We only reported 1 death (2.4%) in > 90 days, which was not related to the reason for surgery. No reinterventions were necessary during admission and there were no readmissions in the first 30 days after discharge, CONCLUSIONS Laparoscopic liver surgery is technically demanding and requires previous experience in open surgery, as well as specific training, which makes a regulated implementation of the technique necessary.