ALLMedicine™ Cholecystitis Center

Jul 9th, 2014 - Ninety percent of cases of acute calculous cholecystitis are of mild (grade I) or moderate (grade II) severity. Although the preoperative and intraoperative antibiotic management of acute calculous cholecystitis has been standardized, few data exi...

Sep 4th, 2017 - ERCP with self-expandable metallic stent (SEMS) placement provides reliable and durable relief of malignant biliary obstruction. Our objective was to compare efficacy and adverse outcomes between uncovered SEMSs (USEMSs) and covered SEMSs (CSEMSs)...

Apr 24th, 2020 - One of the main reasons for failed endoscopic transpapillary gallbladder stenting (ETGS) under fluoroscopic guidance is the inability to cannulate the cystic duct. Single-operator peroral cholangioscopy (SOC)-assisted ETGS is an adjunct technique ...

Oct 23rd, 2019 - Endoscopic transpapillary gallbladder drainage (ETGBD) and endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder drainage (EUSGBD) are alternatives to percutaneous gallbladder drainage (PCGBD) for patients with acute cholecystitis who are unfit for surgery. Da...

Sep 28th, 2020 - The optimal method of gallbladder drainage (GBD) for acute cholecystitis in nonsurgical candidates is uncertain. The aim of the current study was to conduct a network meta-analysis comparing the 3 methods of GBD (percutaneous [PT], endoscopic tran...

Oct 11th, 2012 - Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is one of the most common surgical procedures in Europe (and the world) and has become the standard procedure for the management of symptomatic cholelithiasis or acute cholecystitis in patients without specific contrai...

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 11th, 2013 - Bundles that define mandatory items or procedures to be performed in clinical practice have been increasingly used in guidelines in recent years. Observance of bundles enables improvement of the prognosis of target diseases as well as guideline pr...

Jan 11th, 2013 - We propose a management strategy for acute cholangitis and cholecystitis according to the severity assessment. For Grade I (mild) acute cholangitis, initial medical treatment including the use of antimicrobial agents may be sufficient for most cas...

Jul 9th, 2014 - Ninety percent of cases of acute calculous cholecystitis are of mild (grade I) or moderate (grade II) severity. Although the preoperative and intraoperative antibiotic management of acute calculous cholecystitis has been standardized, few data exi...

Sep 4th, 2017 - ERCP with self-expandable metallic stent (SEMS) placement provides reliable and durable relief of malignant biliary obstruction. Our objective was to compare efficacy and adverse outcomes between uncovered SEMSs (USEMSs) and covered SEMSs (CSEMSs)...

Apr 24th, 2020 - One of the main reasons for failed endoscopic transpapillary gallbladder stenting (ETGS) under fluoroscopic guidance is the inability to cannulate the cystic duct. Single-operator peroral cholangioscopy (SOC)-assisted ETGS is an adjunct technique ...

Oct 23rd, 2019 - Endoscopic transpapillary gallbladder drainage (ETGBD) and endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder drainage (EUSGBD) are alternatives to percutaneous gallbladder drainage (PCGBD) for patients with acute cholecystitis who are unfit for surgery. Da...

Sep 28th, 2020 - The optimal method of gallbladder drainage (GBD) for acute cholecystitis in nonsurgical candidates is uncertain. The aim of the current study was to conduct a network meta-analysis comparing the 3 methods of GBD (percutaneous [PT], endoscopic tran...

Apr 6th, 2018 - Action Points Note that several case reports document severe side effects associated with alemtuzumab use in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Acute acalculous cholecystitis has been previously reported and now appears on the p...

SAN FRANCISCO — Relatively few patients benefit from routine cholecystectomy during laparoscopic or open gastric bypass surgery, according to results of two studies presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery. The.

ABSTRACTFitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome—inflammation of the liver capsule associated with genital tract infection—occurs in up to one fourth of patients with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Classically presenting as sharp, pleuritic right upper quadr.

HOT SPRINGS, VA. — Delaying gallbladder surgery in elderly patients with acute cholecystitis might save money in the short run, but it racks up a bigger bill later in health outcomes and cash outlay, judging by a Medicare claims database study.

CHICAGO — A bile acid thought to decrease biliary pain and acute cholecystitis in patients with gallstones exerted no beneficial effects in Dutch patients who were awaiting cholecystectomy, Niels Venneman, M. D.