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Acute acalculous cholecystitis
Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology, 2005Acute acalculous cholecystitis is defined as acute inflammation of the gallbladder in the absence of gallstones. Patients are usually critically ill with atherosclerotic heart disease, recent trauma, burn injury, surgery, or hemodynamic instability. The presentation of acute acalculous cholecystitis may be insidious, characterized by unexplained fever,
Charles C, Owen, Rajeev, Jain
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The Management of Acute Cholecystitis
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 1971A detailed analysis is presented of 200 consecutive patients suffering from acute cholecystitis who presented at the Surgical Professorial Unit at the Royal Brisbane Hospital between the years 1961 and 1969. Conservative management was initiated and maintained whenever this was considered to be reasonable and safe.
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Acute Gangrenous Cholecystitis
New England Journal of Medicine, 1949GANGRENE of the gall bladder is a complete necrosis of a portion of the wall in one or more areas, and is frequently followed by perforation. Since 1844, when James Duncan,1 of the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, reported a case, the clinical application of the pathology of this disease has been a source of interest and concern to internists and surgeons.
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Acute Cholecystitis and Thiazides
New England Journal of Medicine, 1981THE report by Rosenberg et al. of a positive association between thiazide use and acute cholecystitis1 prompted us to review the results of a closely similar, large-scale survey study carried out by the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program (BCDSP) in 1972.
J B, Porter, H, Jick, B J, Dinan
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Acute Cholecystitis and Cholangitis
2016Although stones in the biliary tree (and especially in the gallbladder) are an extremely common (and many times asymptomatic) disorder, they may even be the cause of insidious infections. Acute cholecystitis (AC) is a bacterial infection (most likely preceded by an inflammation of the gallbladder wall) produced by an obstruction of the cystic duct by ...
Federico Coccolini +9 more
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Ultrasonography in acute cholecystitis
The British Journal of Radiology, 1981Forty cases of acute cholecystitis, surgically and pathologically confirmed, were investigated with ultrasound. Echographic diagnosis was possible in 34 patients (85%): special emphasis was laid on wall thickening (90% of cases, with a mean wall thickness of 8.08 mm), evidence of an echofree layer within the wall (67.5% of patients) and a lumen greater
F, Croce +3 more
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Acute Cholecystitis and Jaundice
Archives of Surgery, 1973Thirty-seven patients with acute cholecystitis and jaundice were studied intraoperatively with cholangiomanometry, and a mechanical lesion explaining the jaundice was found in 23. Six others had probably passed a stone, and one had hepatitis. Several inflammatory factors in this group, when compared with a group of 36 nonjaundiced patients with acute ...
M B, Corlette, H, Bismuth
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The Management of Acute Cholecystitis
Surgical Clinics of North America, 1973The outcome of acute cholecystitis depends on the obstruction of the gallbladder. If the calculus disimpacts, as it does in 85 per cent of patients, there is rapid resolution enabling an accurate diagnosis to be made and appropriate treatment to be given to bring the patient into optimal condition before definitive operation is performed.
D J, du Plessis, J, Jersky
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Management of acute cholecystitis
Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2016Purpose of review Various aspects of the management of acute calculous cholecystitis, including type and timing of surgery, role of antibiotics, and nonoperative management, remain controversial. This review focuses on recently published studies addressing the timing of cholecystectomy, use of cholecystostomy tubes, and role of
Prabhava, Bagla +2 more
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