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Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis in Severe Trauma Patients: A Single Center Experience [PDF]
Journal of Acute Care Surgery, 2015 Purpose: Early diagnosis and prompt treatment of acute acalculous cholecystitis is important, because it is associated with high mortality. In major trauma patients, besides the direct damage the trauma itself causes, many complications can occur due to ...
Jong Beom Kim +5 more
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Acute ischemic cholecystitis in Takayasu’s syndrome – a rare finding [PDF]
Archives of the Balkan Medical Union, 2018 Introduction. Takayasu’s arteritis or pulseless disease is a systemic inflammatory disease of an unknown etiology, affecting medium and large arteries and their branches, leading to stenosis, occlusions, or aneurysmal degeneration. It is more frequent in
Bogdan SOCEA +7 more
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Synchronous gallbladder perforation and appendicitis in a pediatric patient
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2022 Background: Acute appendicitis and acute cholecystitis are among the most common diagnoses operated by general surgeons. However, synchronous appendicitis and cholecystitis have rarely been reported and most cases have been described as acalculous ...
José Miguel Aceves-Ayala +4 more
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Gangrenous Cholecystitis as a Potential Complication of COVID-19: A Case Report
Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports, 2021 While primarily a respiratory disease, COVID-19 can affect several organ systems and has been recently linked to cases of acalculous cholecystitis. We present a previously healthy elderly patient who presented to the emergency department with sepsis and ...
Walid Alam, Karam Karam
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Acta Medica Iranica, 2020 Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a member of the herpes virus family and is characterized by fever, lymphadenopathy, and sore throat. In this report, we present a 20-year-old woman with a four-day history of fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, jaundice and ...
Atousa Hakamifard +3 more
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Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2020 Background: Acute cholecystitis is the acute inflammation of the gallbladder. In adults it is most frequently caused by a gallstone(s) obstructing outflow from the cystic duct, leading to gallbladder distention and edema with eventual development of ...
Robert Langenohl +2 more
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Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2019 Chronic mesenteric ischemia (CMI) is a rare cause of abdominal pain with the potential for significant morbidity and mortality. An infrequently described complication of CMI is acalculous cholecystitis.
Julieta I. Lacey +2 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2021 Scrub typhus is a neglected tropical disease predominantly occurring in Asia. The causative agent is a bacterium transmitted by the larval stage of mites found in rural vegetation in endemic regions.
Hisham Ahmed Imad +14 more
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Acute acalculous cholecystitis due to Plasmodium falciparum malaria
Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2020 Acalculous cholecystitis is a rare entity, typically only presenting in patients with chronic illness and other comorbidities. For this reason, it is very rare in children and upon diagnosis, efforts should be made to search for an underlying cause or ...
Madison Greer +2 more
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Aetiology, diagnosis and management for ischaemic cholecystitis: current perspectives
eGastroenterology, 2023 In the absence of gallstones or any other form of mechanical obstruction, hypoperfusion to the gallbladder can lead to inflammation, ischaemia and perforation.
Juan Gerardo Favela +2 more
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