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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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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.
N M, Matolo, W W, LaMorte, B M, Wolfe
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The Pathogenesis of Acute Cholecystitis
Archives of Surgery, 1960The pathogenesis of acute cholecystitis is primarily due to obstruction of biliary outflow by a stone. Other rare causes may be stricture, kinking of the cystic duct, intussusception of a polyp, torsion of the gallbladder, pressure of an overlying lymph node on the cystic duct, or inspissated and concentrated bile. As the gallbladder distends following
J J, BYRNE, R L, BERGER
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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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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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Diagnosis of Acute Cholecystitis
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1982To the Editor.— I take strong exception to the views expressed by Ronald Tompkins, MD, in response to a question regarding selection of diagnostic modality for diagnosis of acute cholecystitis (1981;246:2868). I believe he has provided an ambiguous answer to the question and has also denigrated the facts by labeling them nonscientific and nonmedical.
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Acute emphysematous cholecystitis
The American Journal of Surgery, 1956Abstract 1. 1. Two cases of acute emphysematous cholecystitis are described and added to a total of thirty-four cases collected from the literature. 2. 2. The diagnosis is dependent upon the plain film of the abdomen showing gas in the gallbladder lumen. A gas-fluid level is often demonstrated. 3. 3.
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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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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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