[Decompression of the gallbladder in acute cholecystitis in middle-aged and elderly patients]. / Dekompressiia zhelchnogo puzyria pri ostrom kholetsistite u bol'nykh pozhilogo i starcheskogo vozrasta.

The authors showed that operations for decompression of the gallbladder may improve the results of surgical treatment of acute cholecystitis in elderly and senile patients at a high anesthesiological risk. Decompression operations reduced postoperative fatality among patients of the most "threatened" group to 3.5%.