ALLMedicine™ Cholecystitis Center

Oct 28th, 2020 - Immune checkpoint inhibitor and chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies are associated with a unique spectrum of complications termed immune-related adverse events (irAEs). The abdomen is the most frequent site of severe irAEs that require hosp...

Oct 25th, 2020 - Early-cholecystectomy (≤8 weeks; E-CCY) following percutaneous cholecystostomy tube (PCT) has been associated with increased postoperative complications but this finding has not been validated at a national-level and PCT-Related Complications/Inte...

Oct 20th, 2020 - Acute Cholecystitis Following Ipilimumab and Nivolumab Treatment for Metastatic Melanoma.|2020|Somerset AE,Field BM,Webber JD,Edelman DA,|

Oct 17th, 2020 - Numerous studies have demonstrated the superiority of early (EC) over delayed (DC) cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis (AC). However, none have assessed the effect of operative difficulty when reporting on treatment outcomes. Outcomes of patie...

Oct 14th, 2020 - The best surgical approach to treat acute cholecystitis (AC) in cirrhotic patients is controversial. This study aimed to evaluate treatment options in cirrhotic patients with AC. We hypothesized that Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (LC) would lead 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...

Oct 28th, 2020 - Immune checkpoint inhibitor and chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies are associated with a unique spectrum of complications termed immune-related adverse events (irAEs). The abdomen is the most frequent site of severe irAEs that require hosp...

Oct 25th, 2020 - Early-cholecystectomy (≤8 weeks; E-CCY) following percutaneous cholecystostomy tube (PCT) has been associated with increased postoperative complications but this finding has not been validated at a national-level and PCT-Related Complications/Inte...

Oct 20th, 2020 - Acute Cholecystitis Following Ipilimumab and Nivolumab Treatment for Metastatic Melanoma.|2020|Somerset AE,Field BM,Webber JD,Edelman DA,|

Oct 17th, 2020 - Numerous studies have demonstrated the superiority of early (EC) over delayed (DC) cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis (AC). However, none have assessed the effect of operative difficulty when reporting on treatment outcomes. Outcomes of patie...

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...

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.

Mar 1st, 2019 - Elective cholecystectomy should be avoided, and required cases should be performed in experienced centers. “The gallbladder wall may appear thickened on imaging, which may lead to the erroneous diagnosis of acute cholecystitis,” the experts noted.

Nov 1st, 2018 - Mary, age 38, was hospitalized for acute cholecystitis requiring laparoscopic surgery. Her hospital course was uneventful.