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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, Bianconcini, Simona, Carcoforo, Paolo, Occhionorelli, Savino, Portinari, Mattia, Scagliarini, Michele, Stano, Rocco, Valpiani, Giorgia   +7 more
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Risk Factors for Delayed Diagnosis of Acute Cholecystitis among Rural Older Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study

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, Ryuichi Ohta, Chiaki Sano   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Acute cholecystitis during COVID-19 pandemic: a multisocietary position statement

World Journal of Emergency Surgery, 2020
Following the spread of the infection from the new SARS-CoV2 coronavirus in March 2020, several surgical societies have released their recommendations to manage the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the daily clinical practice.
F. Campanile, M. Podda, A. Arezzo, E. Botteri, A. Sartori, M. Guerrieri, E. Cassinotti, I. Muttillo, M. Pisano, R. Brachet Contul, G. D’Ambrosio, D. Cuccurullo, C. Bergamini, M. Allaix, V. Caracino, W. Petz, M. Milone, G. Silecchia, G. Anania, A. Agrusa, S. di Saverio, Salvatore Casarano, C. Cicala, P. Narilli, S. Federici, M. Carlini, A. Paganini, P. Bianchi, A. Salaj, A. Mazzari, R. Meniconi, A. Puzziello, G. Terrosu, B. De Simone, F. Coccolini, F. Catena, F. Agresta   +36 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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, Hee Yoon, Soo Yeon Kang, Ik Joon Jo, Sookyoung Woo, Guntak Lee, Jong Eun Park, Taerim Kim, Se Uk Lee, Sung Yeon Hwang, Won Chul Cha, Tae Gun Shin   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Peter Howley, Merran Holmes, Jon Gani, Peter Pockney   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

COVID-19 with acute cholecystitis: a case report

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) presents a major threat to public health and has rapidly spread worldwide since the outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in 2019.
Mingliang Ying, Bin Lu, Jiangfeng Pan, Guanghong Lu, Shaobin Zhou, Dingjun Wang, Lu Li, Junkang Shen, J. Shu   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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, Engin Ozakın, Arif Alper Cevik, Nurdan Acar, Serkan Dogan, Filiz Baloglu Kaya, Taylan Kara   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Vrčić, Hrvoje, Župančić, Božidar   +2 more
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Tokyo Guidelines 2018: diagnostic criteria and severity grading of acute cholecystitis (with videos)

Journal of hepato-biliary-pancreatic sciences, 2018
The Tokyo Guidelines 2013 (TG13) for acute cholangitis and cholecystitis were globally disseminated and various clinical studies about the management of acute cholecystitis were reported by many researchers and clinicians from all over the world. The 1st
M. Yokoe, J. Hata, T. Takada, S. Strasberg, H. Asbun, G. Wakabayashi, K. Kozaka, I. Endo, D. Deziel, F. Miura, Kohji Okamoto, T. Hwang, Wayne Shih‐Wei Huang, C. Ker, Miin‐Fu Chen, Ho-Seong Han, Yoo-Seok Yoon, I. Choi, D. Yoon, Y. Noguchi, S. Shikata, Tomohiko Ukai, R. Higuchi, T. Gabata, Yasuhisa Mori, Y. Iwashita, T. Hibi, P. Jagannath, E. Jonas, K. Liau, C. Dervenis, D. Gouma, D. Cherqui, G. Belli, O. Garden, M. Giménez, E. Santibanes, Kenji Suzuki, A. Umezawa, A. Supe, H. Pitt, Harjit Singh, A. Chan, W. Lau, A. Teoh, G. Honda, A. Sugioka, K. Asai, H. Gomi, T. Itoi, S. Kiriyama, Masahiro Yoshida, T. Mayumi, Naoki Matsumura, H. Tokumura, S. Kitano, K. Hirata, K. Inui, Y. Sumiyama, Masakazu Yamamoto   +59 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Acute lithiasis cholecystitis; particularities of diagnosis and treatment in the elderly [PDF]

, 2023
Objectives. The incidence of acute cholecystitis increases with age, when patients usually associate additional comorbidities. Such comorbidities and the late presentation to the doctor make the treatment more complex, associating higher rates of ...
Baleanu, Vlad Dumitru, Banu, Petrisor, Constantin, Vlad Denis, Epistatu, Dragos, Paunica, Ioana, Silaghi, Adrian, Socea, Bogdan   +6 more
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