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Acute Cholecystitis: A Review.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2022
Importance Gallbladder disease affects approximately 20 million people in the US. Acute cholecystitis is diagnosed in approximately 200 000 people in the US each year.
J. Gallaher, A. Charles
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Cholecystitis

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2008
Cholecystitis is the most prevalent surgical condition affecting populations in industrialized countries. Rather than a single clinical entity, cholecystitis is a class of related disease states with different causes, degrees of severity, clinical courses, and management strategies.
Helmberger T   +3 more
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Endosonography-guided gallbladder drainage versus percutaneous cholecystostomy in very high-risk surgical patients with acute cholecystitis: an international randomised multicentre controlled superiority trial (DRAC 1)

Gut, 2020
Objective The optimal management of acute cholecystitis in patients at very high risk for cholecystectomy is uncertain. The aim of the current study was to compare endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided gallbladder drainage (EUS-GBD) to percutaneous ...
A. Teoh   +14 more
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Permanent endoscopic gallbladder stenting versus removal of gallbladder drainage, long‐term outcomes after management of acute cholecystitis in high‐risk surgical patients for cholecystectomy: Multi‐center retrospective cohort study

Journal of hepato-biliary-pancreatic sciences, 2021
Endoscopic transpapillary gallbladder drainage (EGBD) has been reported as an effective gallbladder drainage treatment option for acute cholecystitis in high‐risk surgical patients.
Akinori Maruta   +7 more
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Cholecystitis

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2014
Acute cholecystitis is defined as inflammation of the gallbladder and is usually caused by obstruction of the cystic duct. Cholescintigraphy is the most sensitive imaging modality for cholecystitis. The gold standard treatment of acute cholecystitis is laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
Lawrence M, Knab   +2 more
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Cholecystitis in adolescents [PDF]

open access: possibleThe American Journal of Digestive Diseases, 1972
The clinicopathologic features in 40 individuals between the ages of 13 and 20 undergoing cholecystectomy were analyzed and found to be a blend of the dissimilar patterns seen in earlier and later years. Only 4 had an associated hemolytic anemia. Females predominated in a ratio of 3.4:1, and a third were parous. Pain and right upper-quadrant tenderness
Murray H. Seltzer   +2 more
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Imaging of Cholecystitis

American Journal of Roentgenology, 2011
tients, such as those in the ICU, in whom clin -ical signs may be masked and imaging signs are less specific compared with the ambulant population [6]. Forty percent of patients with acute cholecystitis develop complications [7] (Table 1), including emphysematous chole-cystitis, which is seen more commonly in men and diabetic patients, with calculi ...
Michael M. Maher, Owen J. O'Connor
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