Acute cholecystitis is an inflammation of the gallbladder. The gallbladder is an organ that sits below your liver and helps your body digest fat. Cholecystitis can become very severe and in most cases ...

April 30, 2010 (UPDATED May 25, 2010) — In patients with symptomatic cholelithiasis, several clinical and demographic factors increase the probability of acute cholecystitis, according to a study in ...

The gallbladder is an expandable pear-shaped organ located beneath your liver. The gallbladder stores bile — a dark green fluid that helps your body digest and absorb food. Sometimes this process is ...

Emphysematous cholecystitis is a rare but serious infection that causes gas to form in the gallbladder’s walls. It stems from acute cholecystitis — inflammation of the gallbladder — and requires ...

Abdominal CT scan: This test uses computers and rotating X-ray machines to create cross-sectional images of the body. These images provide more detailed information than normal X-ray images. They can ...

TRANSIENT fever, pain, ileus and general discomfort are so common after any surgical procedure that development of a new surgical emergency is often masked by these almost routine sequelae. The ...

Acute cholecystitis may present as a cardiovascular disease and misdiagnosis may occur due to ECG changes and biomarkers suggestive of cardiac pathology. Acute cholecystitis is condition where there ...

Cholecystectomy No significant differences in surgical complication risk were seen in early or delayed cholecystectomy for acute cholangitis and acute cholecystitis. No significant differences in ...

Is early or delayed management the preferred strategy for managing acute cholecystitis? The authors performed a randomized controlled trial in 304 patients who had surgery within 24 hours of hospital ...

More than 90% of cases of acute cholecystitis are associated with cholelithiasis (acute calculous cholecystitis). The key elements in pathogenesis seem to be an obstruction of the cystic duct in the ...