ALLMedicine™ Cholecystitis Center

Feb 25th, 2021 - Early laparoscopic cholecystectomy (ELC) is the gold standard treatment for patients with acute calculous cholecystitis (ACC); however, it is still related to significant postoperative complications. The aim of this study is to identify factors as...

Feb 25th, 2021 - While percutaneous cholecystostomy (PC) is a recommended treatment strategy in lieu of cholecystectomy (CCY) for acute cholecystitis among patients who may not be considered good surgical candidates, reports on disparities in treatment utilization...

Feb 25th, 2021 - Comment on paper titled 'Is It Safe to Manage Acute Cholecystitis Nonoperatively During Pregnancy?: A Nationwide Analysis of Morbidity According to Management Strategy', by A. J. Rios-Diaz et al.|2021|Odu J,Perin G,Balasubramanian S,|

Feb 20th, 2021 - Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (Lap-C) is generally performed following percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage (PTGBD) in patients with acute cholecystitis (AC). However, the timing of Lap-C and risk factors for postoperative complications f...

Feb 19th, 2021 - Nonoperative management of acute calculous cholecystitis (ACC) in the frail geriatric population is underexplored. The aim of our study was to examine long-term outcomes of frail geriatric patients with ACC treated with cholecystectomy compared 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...

Feb 25th, 2021 - Early laparoscopic cholecystectomy (ELC) is the gold standard treatment for patients with acute calculous cholecystitis (ACC); however, it is still related to significant postoperative complications. The aim of this study is to identify factors as...

Feb 25th, 2021 - While percutaneous cholecystostomy (PC) is a recommended treatment strategy in lieu of cholecystectomy (CCY) for acute cholecystitis among patients who may not be considered good surgical candidates, reports on disparities in treatment utilization...

Feb 25th, 2021 - Comment on paper titled 'Is It Safe to Manage Acute Cholecystitis Nonoperatively During Pregnancy?: A Nationwide Analysis of Morbidity According to Management Strategy', by A. J. Rios-Diaz et al.|2021|Odu J,Perin G,Balasubramanian S,|

Feb 20th, 2021 - Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (Lap-C) is generally performed following percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage (PTGBD) in patients with acute cholecystitis (AC). However, the timing of Lap-C and risk factors for postoperative complications f...

Feb 19th, 2021 - Nonoperative management of acute calculous cholecystitis (ACC) in the frail geriatric population is underexplored. The aim of our study was to examine long-term outcomes of frail geriatric patients with ACC treated with cholecystectomy compared to...

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.