The role of the internist in surgery for cholecystitis

The author emphasises that modern surgical treatment of cholecystitis should be based on a constant close contact between the internist, surgeon, and anesthesiologist. Such joint management of 1156 patients with cholecystitis, among which 871 (75.3%) were operated on, helped in expanding successfully the surgical activity to 85% of the total number of patients admitted to the surgical department, without an increase in the number of unfavorable outcomes despite tile presence of concomitant cardiovascular diseases (ischemic heart disease, essential hypertension, etc.).