ALLMedicine™ Cholecystitis Center

Jun 10th, 2021 - Acute cholecystitis is a common cause of right upper quadrant pain in patients presenting to the emergency department. Ultrasound, computed tomography, HIDA scans, and magnetic resonance imaging are increasingly utilized to evaluate suspected case...

Jun 9th, 2021 - We report a patient who presented intrahepatic cholangitis and cholecystitis after SARS-CoV-2 infection.|2021|Fajardo J,Núñez E,Szafranska J,Poca M,Lobo D,|

Jun 8th, 2021 - Failure to perform same-admission cholecystectomy (SA-CCY) for mild, acute, biliary pancreatitis (MABP) is a recognized risk factor for recurrence and readmission. However, rates of SA-CCY are low and factors associated with these low rates requir...

Jun 4th, 2021 - Lactococcus (L.) garvieae is a zoonotic fish pathogen that can also cause bacteraemia and endocarditis in humans and has been isolated from healthy or diseased domestic animals. Nevertheless L. garvieae is more an opportunistic, than a primary pat...

Jun 2nd, 2021 - The use of cholecystostomy (c-tube) in acute cholecystitis (AC) has increased yet there is limited evidence to guide surgical decision-making after placement. As a result, there is variability in the use and timing of cholecystectomy after c-tube....

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...

Jun 10th, 2021 - Acute cholecystitis is a common cause of right upper quadrant pain in patients presenting to the emergency department. Ultrasound, computed tomography, HIDA scans, and magnetic resonance imaging are increasingly utilized to evaluate suspected case...

Jun 9th, 2021 - We report a patient who presented intrahepatic cholangitis and cholecystitis after SARS-CoV-2 infection.|2021|Fajardo J,Núñez E,Szafranska J,Poca M,Lobo D,|

Jun 8th, 2021 - Failure to perform same-admission cholecystectomy (SA-CCY) for mild, acute, biliary pancreatitis (MABP) is a recognized risk factor for recurrence and readmission. However, rates of SA-CCY are low and factors associated with these low rates requir...

Jun 4th, 2021 - Lactococcus (L.) garvieae is a zoonotic fish pathogen that can also cause bacteraemia and endocarditis in humans and has been isolated from healthy or diseased domestic animals. Nevertheless L. garvieae is more an opportunistic, than a primary pat...

Jun 2nd, 2021 - The use of cholecystostomy (c-tube) in acute cholecystitis (AC) has increased yet there is limited evidence to guide surgical decision-making after placement. As a result, there is variability in the use and timing of cholecystectomy after c-tube....

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.