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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Surgical treatment of patients with acute cholecystitis: Tokyo Guidelines [PDF]
, 2007 Cholecystectomy has been widely performed in the treatment of acute cholecystitis, and laparoscopic cholecystectomy has been increasingly adopted as the method of surgery over the past 15 years.
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Do I Need to Operate on That in the Middle of the Night? Development of a Nomogram for the Diagnosis of Severe Acute Cholecystitis [PDF]
, 2018 Background Some authors have proposed different predictive factors of severe acute cholecystitis, but generally, the results of risk analyses are expressed as odds ratios, which makes it difficult to apply in the clinical practice of the acute care ...
Andreotti, Dario +7 more
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Medicina, 2022 Background and objectives: Acute cholecystitis causes acute abdominal pain and may necessitate emergency surgery or intensive antibiotic therapy and percutaneous drainage, depending on the patient’s condition. The symptoms of acute cholecystitis in older
Hirotaka Ikeda +2 more
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Use of Gallbladder Width Measurement by Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis of Acute Cholecystitis
Diagnostics, 2022 This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic value of gallbladder width measurement with computed tomography (CT) in patients with acute cholecystitis.
Yong Suk Park +11 more
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Sarcopenia ‘made simple’ and outcomes from emergency laparotomy
ANZ Journal of Surgery, Volume 92, Issue 12, Page 3198-3203, December 2022., 2022 CT‐assessed ratio of L3 vertebral body cross‐sectional area to total psoas muscle cross‐sectional area (L3:PM) is a simple yet significant predictor of 30‐, 90‐ and 365‐day mortality in emergency laparotomy patients. This study is the first to describe the association in an Australian population.
Yan Joyce Ming +4 more
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Laparoscopic cholecystectomy due to acute calculouscholecystitis in 16 weeks' in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer pregnancy: report of the first case [PDF]
, 2012 The most common casues of acute abdomen during pregnancy are acute appendicitis followed by acute cholecystitis. The case presented is a 33-year-old patient in 16 weeks' in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer pregnacy who developed acute ...
Augustin, Goran +2 more
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Plasma Procalcitonin Is Useful for Predicting the Severity of Acute Cholecystitis
Emergency Medicine International, 2020 Background. Acute cholecystitis is a common complication of cholelithiasis. Delayed diagnosis may constitute morbidity and mortality; therefore, early diagnosis and determining the severity of acute cholecystitis are crucial. Objectives. This study aimed
Saben Sakalar +6 more
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Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, EarlyView., 2021 Abstract Objective To evaluate the effects of bilateral caudal zona incerta (cZi) deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's disease (PD) one year after surgery and to create anatomical improvement maps based on patient‐specific simulation of the electric field.
Rasmus Stenmark Persson +6 more
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New diagnostic criteria and severity assessment of acute cholecystitis in revised Tokyo guidelines [PDF]
, 2012 Background: The Tokyo Guidelines for the management of acute cholangitis and cholecystitis (TG07) were published in 2007 as the world's first guidelines for acute cholangitis and cholecystitis.
Bornman, Philippus C. +32 more
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