Acalculous Cholecystitis: The Unexpected Mask of De Novo Heart Failure [PDF]
Clinical Case ReportsAcute acalculous cholecystitis refers to inflammation of the gallbladder without the presence of gallstones or obstruction of the cystic duct. Heart failure is recognized for causing congestive hepatopathy and can lead to gallbladder swelling, often ...
Mhd Baraa Habib +6 more
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A Rare and Severe Multisystem Cascade of AKI, ARDS, and Septic Shock Leading to Acalculous Cholecystitis in a Young Scrub Typhus Patient: A Case Report From Nepal [PDF]
Clinical Case ReportsScrub typhus, caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, is an acute febrile illness prevalent in Nepal with a wide spectrum of clinical presentations. Severe forms can lead to multiorgan dysfunction, including acute kidney injury (AKI), acute respiratory ...
Prabhat Kaphle +6 more
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Acute acalculous cholecystitis complicated by infectious mononucleosis caused by cytomegalovirus [PDF]
Clinical Case ReportsKey Clinical Message When seeing patients who present with atypical lymphocytes and abdominal pain without accompanying symptoms of pharyngitis or lymphadenopathy, acalculous cholecystitis caused by CMV infection should be considered as a differential ...
Noriko Ide +3 more
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A Case Report of Typhoidal Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis [PDF]
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2014 Introduction. Acalculous cholecystitis in the setting of typhoid fever in adults is an infrequent clinical encounter, reported sparsely in the literature.
Neeha Rajan +5 more
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Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis Associated with Abscesses—An Unknown Dual Pathology [PDF]
Biomedicines, 2023 (1) Introduction and Aims: Little is known about the relationship between renal pathology and gallbladder pathology, although the two organs (the gallbladder and the right kidney) are in close proximity to one another.
Cristina Gluhovschi +6 more
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Acalculous Cholecystitis or Biliary Dyskinesia for Epstein-Barr Virus Gallbladder Involvement? [PDF]
Prague Medical Report, 2014 We present two patients with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection related to gallbladder involvement. Such an association is already known as EBV induced acalculous cholecystitis, diagnosed on the basis of ultrasonographic findings.
Andrew Fretzayas +4 more
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Synchronous presentation of acute acalculous cholecystitis and appendicitis: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2011 Introduction Acute acalculous cholecystitis is traditionally associated with elderly or critically ill patients. Case presentation We present the case of an otherwise healthy 23-year-old Caucasian man who presented with acute right-sided abdominal pain ...
Sahebally Shaheel M +3 more
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Acute acalculous cholecystitis with portal cavernoma: A case report with literature review [PDF]
Radiology Case ReportsPortal cavernoma cholangiopathy (PCC) refers to morphological changes in the intrahepatic, extrahepatic biliary system, along with the gallbladder (GB), induced by portal cavernoma (PC).
Duc Tan Vo, MD, PhD +5 more
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The Pan African Medical Journal, 2013 Nontyphoidal salmonella are a rare case of acute acalculous cholecystitis. Salmonella Paratyphi B, which accounts for one of the less invasive NTS serotypes, has rarely been reported to cause cholecystitis.
El Bachir Benjelloun +5 more
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Necrotic acalculous cholecystitis in an 8-year-old boy: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case ReportsBackground Although its incidence has increased in recent years, gallbladder inflammation in childhood is generally a rare condition. Acute acalculous cholecystitis accounts for about 50–70% of gallbladder inflammation in childhood, mostly in previously ...
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