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Acute Salmonella typhi Acalculous Cholecystitis.

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Summary: Despite the high prevalence of salmonella infection in developing nations, there are scanty reports of acute acalculous cholecystitis due to the organism compared to its relatively more frequent reports from the more industrialized countries ...
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Acute cholecystitis

Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology, 1999
Patients with a diagnosis of acute cholecystitis need to be hospitalized, with surgery (ie, cholecystectomy) being the treatment of choice. While hospitalized, they should be treated with intravenous hydration and with intravenous antibiotics covering enteric organisms. They should receive nothing by mouth and may require a nasogastric tube if ileus is
, Mulagha, , Fromm
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Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis

Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, 2003
Acute cholecystitis can develop without gallstones in critically ill or injured patients. However, the development of acute acalculous cholecystitis is not limited to surgical or injured patients, or even to the intensive care unit. Diabetes, malignant disease, abdominal vasculitis, congestive heart failure, cholesterol embolization, and shock or ...
Philip S, Barie, Soumitra R, Eachempati
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Acute Cholecystitis

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1988
Acute cholecystitis is a common cause of the acute abdomen. The diagnosis has been distinctly improved with the development of ultrasonography and hepatobiliary scanning over the past 20 years. The treatment is cholecystectomy, with early as opposed to delayed operation gaining increasing popularity nationwide.
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Acute cholecystitis in the elderly

The American Journal of Surgery, 1990
After a controlled randomized trial, the management of patients with acute cholecystitis was changed from delayed to early cholecystectomy. The results obtained in 125 consecutive patients some years before the trial and in 144 consecutive patients after the trial were compared. All patients were 70 years or older.
G, Edlund, M, Ljungdahl
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Acute and Chronic Cholecystitis

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1981
The combination of chemical irritants and cystic duct occlusion by either gallstones, mucus, or inflammation, appears to be responsible for the development of acute and chronic cholecystitis in most cases. Once the diagnosis of acute cholecystitis is established, early cholecystectomy is usually recommended.
N M, Matolo, W W, LaMorte, B M, Wolfe
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Acute Stoneless Cholecystitis

Archives of Surgery, 1956
Most gall bladders surgically removed contain stones. The incidence of cholelithiasis in published cholecystectomy series ranges from 75% to 100%, with an average for the aggregate of 92.5%.1Only occasionally has stonefree cholecystitis been considered separately.* However, acute inflammation, and even gangrene, of the gall bladder can occur in the ...
T B, GIBBONS, J W, BAKER
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