Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: A Prospective Randomized Multi-center Study of Acute Cholecystitis in the Elderly: Comparison of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy vs. Conservative Treatment With Antibiotics
Brief Summary: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the only curative treatment for gallstone disease of acute calculous cholecystitis.The purpose of this study is to find the most effective treatment (laparoscopic cholecystectomy vs. conservative) for elderly patients with acute cholecystitis. Therefore a randomized multi-centre study of 200 elderly patients suffering from acute cholecystitis is performed.