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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
Eneya Mulagha, Hans Fromm
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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
Eneya Mulagha, Hans Fromm
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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 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 Acalculous Cholecystitis
Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, 2003Acute 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 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.
Jane Porter +2 more
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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 and Chronic Cholecystitis
Surgical Clinics of North America, 1981The 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.
Nathaniel M. Matolo +2 more
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Acute cholecystitis in the elderly
The American Journal of Surgery, 1990After 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.
Gunnar Edlund, Mikael Ljungdahl
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Cholelithiasis and acute cholecystitis
Baillière's Clinical Gastroenterology, 1997Although much is still to be learned about the pathogenesis of cholelithiasis, recent investigations have greatly advanced our knowledge regarding the mechanisms of cholesterol supersaturation and nucleation. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has lessened the usual peri-operative morbidity of cholecystectomy, but is associated with a higher bile duct injury
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