RESUMO
Chronic complications of symptomatic gallstone disease, such as Mirizzi syndrome, are rare in Western developed countries with an incidence of less than 1% a year. The importance and implications of this condition are related to their associated and potentially serious surgical complications such as bile duct injury, and to its modern management when encountered during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The pathophysiological process leading to the subtypes of Mirizzi syndrome has been explained by means of a pressure ulcer caused by an impacted gallstone at the gallbladder infundibulum, leading to an inflammatory response causing first external obstruction of the bile duct, and eventually eroding into the bile duct and evolving to a cholecystocholedochal or cholecystohepatic fistula. This article reviews the life of Pablo Luis Mirizzi, describes the earlier and later descriptions of Mirizzi syndrome, discusses the pathophysiological process leading to the development of these uncommon fistulas, reviews the current diagnostic modalities and surgical approaches and finally proposes a simplified classification for Mirizzi syndrome intended to standardize the reports on this condition and to eventually develop a consensual surgical approach to this unexpected and seriously dangerous condition.
Assuntos
Síndrome de Mirizzi , História do Século XIX , História do Século XX , Humanos , Síndrome de Mirizzi/classificação , Síndrome de Mirizzi/diagnóstico , Síndrome de Mirizzi/história , Síndrome de Mirizzi/terapiaRESUMO
A síndrome de Mirizzi é uma importante complicação da doença calculosa biliar. Pablo Luís Mirizzi, de Córdoba, Argentina, descreveu uma condição hoje conhecida como síndorme de Mirizzi, em 1948. Ele dedicou sua vida à Cirurgia e aos estudantes.
Mirizzi syndrome is an important complication of gallstone disease. Pablo Luís Mirizzi, from Córdoba, Argentina, described a condition now know as the Mirizzi syndrome, in 1948. He dedicated his life to surgery and his students.