ALLMedicine™ Cholecystitis Center

Apr 23rd, 2021 - Bouveret syndrome is a rare cause of gastric outlet obstruction. It is characterised by the presence of an obstructing gallstone in the pylorus or proximal duodenum, which has travelled to its obstructing position via an acquired fistula. Our case...

Apr 22nd, 2021 - In contrast to adults, for whom guidelines on the cholelithiasis treatment exist, there is no consistent treatment of pediatric patients with cholelithiasis throughout national and international departments, most probably due to the lack of eviden...

Apr 21st, 2021 - The Tokyo Guidelines 2018 have been widely adopted since their publication. However, the few reports on clinical outcomes following laparoscopic cholecystectomy have not taken into account the severity of the acute cholecystitis and the patient's ...

Apr 21st, 2021 - OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to report national utilization trends and outcomes after percutaneous cholecystostomy, cholecystectomy, or no intervention among patients admitted to hospitals with acute cholecystitis. MATERIALS AND METHOD...

Apr 21st, 2021 - Native valves infective endocarditis due to Escherichia coli is still a rare disease and a particular virulence of some E.coli isolate may be suspected. A 79-year-old woman presented during the post-operative period of an orthopedic surgery a urin...

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...

Apr 23rd, 2021 - Bouveret syndrome is a rare cause of gastric outlet obstruction. It is characterised by the presence of an obstructing gallstone in the pylorus or proximal duodenum, which has travelled to its obstructing position via an acquired fistula. Our case...

Apr 22nd, 2021 - In contrast to adults, for whom guidelines on the cholelithiasis treatment exist, there is no consistent treatment of pediatric patients with cholelithiasis throughout national and international departments, most probably due to the lack of eviden...

Apr 21st, 2021 - The Tokyo Guidelines 2018 have been widely adopted since their publication. However, the few reports on clinical outcomes following laparoscopic cholecystectomy have not taken into account the severity of the acute cholecystitis and the patient's ...

Apr 21st, 2021 - OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to report national utilization trends and outcomes after percutaneous cholecystostomy, cholecystectomy, or no intervention among patients admitted to hospitals with acute cholecystitis. MATERIALS AND METHOD...

Apr 21st, 2021 - Native valves infective endocarditis due to Escherichia coli is still a rare disease and a particular virulence of some E.coli isolate may be suspected. A 79-year-old woman presented during the post-operative period of an orthopedic surgery a urin...

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.