- [Gallbladder Necrosis after Surgery for Stanford Type A Aortic Dissection in an Elderly Patient:Report of a Case]. [Case Reports]Kyobu Geka. 2023 Feb; 76(2):140-143.KG
- An 86-year-old woman who suffered from cardiac tamponade due to acute Stanford type A aortic dissection was admitted to our hospital. An emergency operation was performed uneventfully. She suffered from abdominal pain 13 days after the operation. Computed tomography(CT) scan revealed pericholecystic fluid and unclear gallbladder wall, revealing acalculous necrotizing cholecystitis. We performed o…
- ACUTE ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS TRIGGERED BY AN ACUTE FLARE-UP IN VIRAL HEPATITIS B INFECTION: A CASE REPORT. [Case Reports]Gastroenterol Nurs. 2023 Jan-Feb 01; 46(1):67-70.GN
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- An Overview of Ascariasis Involvement in Gallbladder Disease: A Systematic Review of Case Reports. [Review]
- Ascaris lumbricoides is the most common type of helminth infection in humans. It affects more than one billion of the world's population. Children living in developing nations are prone to ascariasis, presenting with obstructive biliary illnesses. Migration of Ascaris worms through the major duodenal papilla to the hepatobiliary system leads to symptoms of biliary colic and complications along th…
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- Clinical characteristics and prognosis of patients with healthcare-associated cholecystitis receiving percutaneous cholecystostomy. [Journal Article]Langenbecks Arch Surg. 2023 Jan 12; 408(1):20.LA
- CONCLUSIONS: In conclusion, compared to patients with CAC, those with HAC had more atypical symptoms, poorer clinical response to PC, longer hospital stay, and higher all-cause mortality, which makes the acceptability of PC treatment questionable.
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- Skeletal Muscle Loss During Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Predicts the Incidence of Postoperative Infectious Complications in Esophageal Cancer Patients Undergoing Esophagectomy. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Skeletal muscle loss during NAC is a useful predictor of postoperative complications in patients with esophageal cancer undergoing esophagectomy.
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- Acute acalculous cholecystitis in a patient with dengue fever: A case report. [Case Reports]
- CONCLUSIONS: Acute acalculous cholecystitis is an atypical presentation of dengue fever. Awareness of atypical presentations of dengue helps in identifying dengue earlier and preventing complications.
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- Rare But Fatal: Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) With Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis. [Case Reports]
- Acalculous cholecystitis is an acute inflammatory disease of the gall bladder with high morbidity and mortality rate. It can be seen in trauma, burns, sepsis, total parenteral nutrition, prolonged fasting, and autoimmune diseases. However, there are very few reports of acalculous cholecystitis with macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) in patients with …
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- Acalculous variant of Mirizzi syndrome: Imaging and clinical characteristics. [Journal Article]Clin Imaging. 2023 Feb; 94:62-70.CI
- CONCLUSIONS: A variant of Mirizzi Syndrome occurs in the absence of an offending gallstone in the gallbladder neck or cystic duct to explain the biliary narrowing. We postulate that acute cholecystitis can cause a local inflammatory narrowing resulting in biliary obstruction.
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- Hepatomesenteric Trunk Dissection Complicated with Acalculous Cholecystitis. [Journal Article]Intern Med. 2022 Dec 07 [Online ahead of print]IM
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- Orbital inflammatory pseudotumor revealing multi-organ immunoglobulin G4-related disease. [Case Reports]Int J Rheum Dis. 2022 Nov 29 [Online ahead of print]IJ
- Relatively recently, the concept that immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4)-related disease is a distinct chronic inflammatory disorder rather than a subset of Sjögren's syndrome has been accepted. IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a fibro-inflammatory systemic immune-mediated condition that can affect the pancreas, salivary glands, and lymph nodes. Almost every organ may be impacted synchronously or metachro…
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- Acute acalculous cholecystitis in hospitalized patients in intensive care unit: study of 5 cases. [Case Reports]
- CONCLUSIONS: This study, in spite of its small sample size, gave us an idea of patients at risk of developing this disease, on the difficulty of diagnosis and on the importance of surgical treatment.
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- Concomitant Presentation of Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis and Acute Colitis in a Patient with Behcet's Disease. [Case Reports]
- In this study, we present a case of Behcet's colitis that caused acute inflammation in the gallbladder and mimicked the clinical picture of an acute abdomen: severe right-sided abdominal pain, nausea, fever, and tenderness in the right hypochondrium, right flank, right loin, and right iliac fossa (RIF), with severely elevated white blood cell (WBC) count. The picture of acute acalculous cholecyst…
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- Acalculous cholecystitis presentation in a young patient. [Case Reports]
- Acute acalculous cholecystitis accounts for only 5-10% of cholecystitis cases and is often associated with severe trauma, critical illness, or chronic disease. Our case describes an otherwise healthy 25-year-old female presenting with acute abdominal pain. After undergoing a magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography and cholescintigraphy she was diagnosed with acute acalculous cholecystitis. He…
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- Safe and effective short-time percutaneous cholecystostomy: A retrospective observational study. [Journal Article]
- The introduction of percutaneous cholecystostomy (PCT) has shifted the paradigm in treatment of acute calculous and acalculous cholecystitis. PCT has high success and low complication rates, but there are still unresolved issues regarding the duration of the procedure. The aim of our study is to determine the characteristics and outcome of patients treated with short-term PCT drainage. Patients w…
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- Staphylococcus epidermidis catheter-related bloodstream infection leading to acute acalculous cholecystitis and septic shock. [Journal Article]Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2022 Oct 02; 83(10):1-3.BJ
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- Celiac Disease and Gallbladder: Pathophysiological Aspects and Clinical Issues. [Review]
- Background: Celiac Disease (CD) is an immune-mediated disorder which primarily affects the small intestine; however, extra-intestinal organs are often affected by the pathological process, too. As regards the digestive system, liver alterations in CD patients have been widely described, which can also extend to the biliary tract. Notably, gallbladder function can be altered in CD patients. In thi…
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- StatPearls: Chronic Cholecystitis [BOOK]StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing: Treasure Island (FL)BOOK
- Chronic cholecystitis is a chronic condition caused by ongoing inflammation of the gallbladder resulting in mechanical or physiological dysfunction its emptying. It presents as a smoldering course that can be accompanied by acute exacerbations of increased pain (acute biliary colic), or it can progress to a more severe form of cholecystitis requiring urgent intervention (acute cholecystitis). The…
- StatPearls: Acalculous Cholecystitis [BOOK]StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing: Treasure Island (FL)BOOK
- Acalculous cholecystitis is a form of cholecystitis caused by dysfunction or hypokinesis of gallbladder emptying. The more commonly encountered condition of cholecystitis is caused by a mechanical blockage of the gallbladder outlet at the cystic duct, usually by a gallstone. Duncan first described the condition of acalculous cholecystitis in 1844. Although it can present acutely, acalculous chole…
- StatPearls: Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy [BOOK]StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing: Treasure Island (FL)BOOK
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a minimally invasive surgical procedure for removal of a diseased gallbladder. This technique essentially has replaced the open technique for routine cholecystectomies since the early 1990s. At this time, laparoscopic cholecystectomy is indicated for the treatment of cholecystitis (acute/chronic), symptomatic cholelithiasis, biliary dyskinesia, acalculous cholecyst…
- Acute acalculous cholecystitis in a pediatric dengue hemorrhagic fever patient: A case report, lesson learned from limited resource setting. [Case Reports]
- CONCLUSIONS: Understanding pathophysiology of the acalculous cholecystitis in DF/DHF patients and atypical presentation of sharp abdominal pain help physicians for early diagnosis and management both in monitoring and patient care management. Abdominal ultrasonography can help physicians to diagnose AAC.
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- StatPearls: Gallbladder Imaging [BOOK]StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing: Treasure Island (FL)BOOK
- There are several variations and etiologies of gallbladder disease. Chronic and acute cholecystitis are the two ways this condition can present. Calculous and acalculous (with or without gallstones or cholelithiasis) are also variants of this disease. The most common form of gallbladder disease is chronic cholecystitis with cholelithiasis. Up to 15% of the population of the United States has asym…
- Cyclophilin D regulates oxidative stress and apoptosis via mitochondrial permeability transition pore in acute acalculous cholecystitis. [Journal Article]Curr Mol Med. 2022 Sep 08 [Online ahead of print]CM
- CONCLUSIONS: CypD plays a proinflammatory role in the development of AAC by regulating the opening of MPTP. Inhibiting the activity of CypD could reduce the levels of ROS and apoptosis, rescue the function of mitochondria and finally alleviated AAC. Therefore, CypD might serve as a potential therapeutic target for ACC.
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- Exacerbation of Mania due to Metronidazole in a Bipolar Disorder Patient. [Case Reports]
- Bipolar disorder is a mental health disorder where the patient experiences extreme shifts in mood marked by depression, mania, or hypomania. It affects their overall daily life activities and sleep patterns. This case report is of a 74-year-old female patient with bipolar disorder who experienced a manic episode after initiation of antibiotics to treat gallbladder perforation with abscess formati…
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- Multiple Myeloma Plasmacytoid Infiltration of the Gallbladder Presenting as Acute Cholecystitis. [Case Reports]
- Secondary distal plasmacytoma that arise from multiple myeloma is a common hematological malignancy that manifests in later stages of the disease. These plasmacytomas are known to cause extensive systemic organ damage. When extramedullary plasmacytomas reach the gallbladder or biliary ducts, expansion can mimic acute acalculous cholecystitis or cholangiocarcinoma. We report a case of a 56-year-ol…
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- Pleural Effusion: An Uncommon Manifestation of Hepatitis. [Case Reports]J Nepal Health Res Counc. 2022 Jun 03; 20(1):269-271.JN
- Hepatitis A virus infection is the commonest form of hepatitis in pediatric age group and common health problem in developing countries due to poor sanitation. The clinical spectrum of hepatitis A virus infection ranges from asymptomatic infection to fulminant hepatitis and the symptoms are primarily hepatobiliary or constitutional. Here, we present a case of 16 years old male who presented with …
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- Extrapulmonary Manifestations of SARS-CoV-2: A Report of 3 Cases and a Literature Review. [Case Reports]
- BACKGROUND COVID-19 disease, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has been one of the greatest challenges in modern medicine. It is mostly known to affect the pulmonary system, leading to pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome, but there is a growing body of evidence of extrapulmonary manifestations of COVID-19 disease. CASE REPORT This article presents 3 cases of various extrapulmonary sym…
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- Acalculous Cholecystitis Secondary to Hepatitis C Infection. [Case Reports]
- Acute acalculous cholecystitis (AAC) represents gallbladder inflammation without evidence of gallstones. This typically results from gallbladder stasis and/or ischemia, which then causes a local inflammatory response within the wall. The condition is typically multifactorial and seen in critically ill patients, with associated risk factors that include trauma, burns, infections, total parenteral …
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