ALLMedicine™ Cholecystitis Center

Jan 26th, 2023 - THE CASE A 42-year-old man with a history of bipolar disorder with psychotic features, asthma, and chronic pain was brought to the emergency department (ED) by his father due to altered mental status, coughing, and vomiting. The patient was unable.

Jan 23rd, 2023 - The microRNAs (miRNAs) in circulation could serve as biomarkers for cancer detection. Gallbladder carcinoma (GBC) is mostly asymptomatic; therefore, using microRNAs (miRNAs) as an early diagnostic biomarker could be a valuable tool. We aimed to id...

Jan 20th, 2023 - To study the utility of 2D shear wave elastography (SWE) and ascertain cut-off values of shear wave elasticity (SWe) to differentiate benign and malignant thickening of the gallbladder wall. This study was a prospective study of patients with symp...

Jan 20th, 2023 - Background: It is recognized increasingly that common surgical infections of the peritoneal cavity may be treated with antibiotic agents alone, or source control surgery with short-course antimicrobial therapy. By extension, testable hypotheses ha...

Jan 18th, 2023 - The American College of Surgeons NSQIP surgical risk calculator provides an estimation of 30-day postoperative adverse outcomes. It is useful in the identification of high-risk patients needing clinical optimization and supports the informed conse...

Aug 5th, 2021 - Endoscopic management of acute cholecystitis has expanded in patients who are considered nonoperative candidates. Traditionally managed with percutaneous cholecystostomy (PC), improvement in techniques and devices has led to increased use of endos...

Jul 28th, 2021 - Lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMSs) are a novel class of devices that have expanded the spectrum of endoscopic GI interventions. LAMSs with their dumbbell configuration, short saddle length, and large inner luminal diameter provide favorable stent...

Nov 7th, 2020 - Acute calculus cholecystitis (ACC) has a high incidence in the general population. The presence of several areas of uncertainty, along with the availability of new evidence, prompted the current update of the 2016 WSES (World Society of Emergency ...

May 6th, 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 24th, 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 9th, 2023 - Cholecystectomy is the most common abdominal surgical procedure and is usually performed laparoscopically. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is considered the standard surgery for gallstone disease, and this procedure has the advantages of less postope...

Dec 12th, 2022 - The SPRIMACC study is a prospective multicenter observational study with the primary endpoint to prospectively validate the Chole-Risk score in predicting a complicated postoperative course (post-operative major complications (Clavien-Dindo>=3a), ...

Nov 15th, 2022 - This study was conducted in a field hospital deployed in a rural area of the middle Atlas in Morocco during the winters of 2016 and 2017. The Middle Atlas is a part of the Atlas mountain range which is usually blocked and isolated by snow during t...

Nov 10th, 2022 - Background (i) Background information Gallstone disease is a very common disease identity in developed countries, causing a major health burden. There is an estimate of 20 - 25 million adults diagnosed to have gallstone disease annually, resulting...

Oct 24th, 2022 - When surgical procedures are standardized, laparoscopy's benefits in a range of emergency scenarios are without question acknowledged. When only a basic strategy is set for the surgery, and the surgical approach entirely depends on intra-abdominal...

Jan 26th, 2023 - THE CASE A 42-year-old man with a history of bipolar disorder with psychotic features, asthma, and chronic pain was brought to the emergency department (ED) by his father due to altered mental status, coughing, and vomiting. The patient was unable.

Sep 4th, 2022 - Percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage (PT-GBD) is the most common, nonoperative method for gallbladder decompression in patients unfit for cholecystectomy. However, drain-related complications (20%-75%), including tube changes, dyscosmesi.

Aug 30th, 2022 - An analysis of FDA's reporting system for adverse events turned up three dozen cases of acute gallbladder disease in patients taking glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists for diabetes or weight loss, including three deaths. From 2005 t...

Aug 17th, 2022 - Birth via cesarean section was associated with a higher risk for developing Crohn's disease later in life, a population-based cohort study from Sweden found. In the study of over 1 million newborns, unadjusted univariate analysis found that certai...

Jul 31st, 2022 - Key clinical point: Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP4) inhibitors significantly increased the risk for the composite of gallbladder or biliary diseases and cholecystitis but not for cholelithiasis and biliary diseases in patients with type 2 diabetes (.