ALLMedicine™ Cholecystitis Center

Jan 19th, 2021 - Gallbladder pathology is diverse, and imaging tests are essential tools for its diagnosis. Acute cholecystitis has multiple manifestations or complications, one of which is hemorrhagic cholecystitis (HC). In the current literature, this pathology ...

Jan 17th, 2021 - Spontaneous gallbladder hemorrhage (SGBH) is a rare diagnosis related to trauma, malignancy or vascular abnormalities, associated with significant morbidity and mortality. We present a case of SGBH in a 55-year-old patient with right upper quadran...

Jan 17th, 2021 - Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is a common procedure for cholelithiasis paid by diagnostic-related groups (DRGs) systems. However, acute cholecystitis (AC) patients usually have heterogeneous conditions that compromise the successful implementa...

Jan 12th, 2021 - The pathogenesis of acute aortic dissection (AAD) is not fully elucidated yet, but it was recently shown that inflammation contributes to the occurrence and development of both Stanford type A and type B AAD. We describe a rare case of a painless ...

Jan 11th, 2021 - Acute cholecystitis can be difficult to diagnose in the emergency department (ED); no single finding can rule in or rule out the disease. A prediction score for the diagnosis of acute cholecystitis for use at the bedside would be of great value to...

May 5th, 2019 - Although right upper quadrant pain is a very common clinical presentation, it can be nonspecific. However, acute cholecystitis is very often the diagnosis of exclusion. This review focuses on the recommended imaging evaluation in the most commonly...

Jan 23rd, 2013 - Since its publication in 2007, the Tokyo Guidelines for the management of acute cholangitis and cholecystitis (TG07) have been widely adopted. The validation of TG07 conducted in terms of clinical practice has shown that the diagnostic criteria fo...

Jan 23rd, 2013 - Therapy with appropriate antimicrobial agents is an important component in the management of patients with acute cholangitis and/or acute cholecystitis. In the updated Tokyo Guidelines (TG13), we recommend antimicrobial agents that are suitable fr...

Jan 11th, 2013 - Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is now accepted as a surgical procedure for acute cholecystitis when it is performed by an expert surgeon. There are several lines of strong evidence, such as randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and meta-analyses, supp...

Jan 11th, 2013 - Since the publication of the Tokyo Guidelines for the management of acute cholangitis and cholecystitis (TG07), diagnostic criteria and severity assessment criteria for acute cholangitis have been presented and extensively used as the primary stan...

Jan 20th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A bedside scoring tool could help identify or rule out sonographic acute cholecystitis (SAC) in the emergency department (ED), researchers say. The study builds on previous work and "defines a way to potentially rule in...

Jan 19th, 2021 - Gallbladder pathology is diverse, and imaging tests are essential tools for its diagnosis. Acute cholecystitis has multiple manifestations or complications, one of which is hemorrhagic cholecystitis (HC). In the current literature, this pathology ...

Jan 17th, 2021 - Spontaneous gallbladder hemorrhage (SGBH) is a rare diagnosis related to trauma, malignancy or vascular abnormalities, associated with significant morbidity and mortality. We present a case of SGBH in a 55-year-old patient with right upper quadran...

Jan 17th, 2021 - Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is a common procedure for cholelithiasis paid by diagnostic-related groups (DRGs) systems. However, acute cholecystitis (AC) patients usually have heterogeneous conditions that compromise the successful implementa...

Jan 12th, 2021 - The pathogenesis of acute aortic dissection (AAD) is not fully elucidated yet, but it was recently shown that inflammation contributes to the occurrence and development of both Stanford type A and type B AAD. We describe a rare case of a painless ...

Jan 20th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A bedside scoring tool could help identify or rule out sonographic acute cholecystitis (SAC) in the emergency department (ED), researchers say. The study builds on previous work and "defines a way to potentially rule in...

Nov 19th, 2020 - Clinical practice guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of acute calculus cholecystitis (ACC) were updated in November 2020 by the World Society of Emergency Surgery.[1] Diagnosis The suggested combination for diagnosis is a detailed history, ...

Oct 15th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For patients with acute cholecystitis who are not candidates for surgery, cholecystostomy tube insertion followed by percutaneous cholecystolithotomy (PCCL) may be an option, researchers suggest. Before PCCL can be perf...

Sep 20th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Two case reports from Switzerland show that COVID-19 can mimic acalculous acute cholecystitis and is associated with SARS-CoV-2 in the gallbladder wall. Along with the typical upper and lower respiratory symptoms of COV...

Mar 4th, 2019 - Comment The objective of this study was to examine the background risks for specific gastrointestinal pathologies in a large cohort of patients with psoriasis compared to the general population. After adjusting for measured confounders, patients w.