BACKGROUND:

Bile duct pathologies, specifically acute cholecystitis, is the second most common cause of non-obstetric surgical emergency, with an incidence of 1 in 1,600 to 10,000 pregnancies.

OBJECTIVE:

Report of a case of a patient with acute cholecystitis during the second trimester of pregnancy treated by laparoscopic surgery.

CLINICAL CASE:

34-year-old female, pregnancy 3, childbirth 2; with pregnancy of 16.5 weeks. She presented colicky abdominal pain located in the right upper quadrant. Physical examination revealed abdomen with normoaudible peristalsis, soft, depressible, pain on medium and deep palpation in the right hypochondrium, murphy sign (-), no evidence of peritoneal irritation, no plastrons palpated, uterus above symphysis of the pubis. Abdominal ultrasound reports a well-defined vesicle with regular and well-defined borders, with a thin wall, with the presence of multiple stones in its interior. There was no presence of leukocytosis. Laparoscopic surgical management was decided, during which a gallbladder with tension walls, a short, dilated cystic duct, with an impacted stone was found. No complications were reported. She continued her prenatal care in our hospital unit and the pregnancy was resolved by cesarean section. Neonatal outcomes were optimal.

CONCLUSIONS:

Cholecystitis is one of the main non-obstetric surgical pathologies that occur in pregnancy, it is important to consider that the fact of postponing surgery could have consequences for both the mother and the fetus, so the timely diagnosis and management of this type of pathology must be carried out.

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