the relationship between age, sex and location of the pateints and the outbreak of acute and chronic cholecystitis in patients operated in imam khomeini hospital of urmia     khalaji n [1] * , abdullahzade n [2] , pourghassem j [3] , maleki m [4]     received: 26 sep , 2013 accepted: 5 nov , 2013   abstract   background & aims : cholecystitis is one of the most common diseases in gastrointestin...

Eosinophilic cholecystitis (EC) is a rare entity that presents in a manner comparable to acute cholecystitis. The diagnosis is based on classical symptoms of cholecystitis with the presence of eosinophils (>90%) within the gallbladder. EC has been reported alone (idiopathic EC) or in combination with manifestations such as eosinophilic cholangitis, hypereosinophilic syndromes, and parasitic inf...

Surgical complications of typhoid fever usually involve gut but infrequently typhoid fever also involves gallbladder. Complications range from acalculous cholecystitis to perforation. We present a series of three cases which included acalculous cholecystitis, gangrenous cholecystitis and perforation of gallbladder. Investigations revealed them to be a complication of Enteric fever. Acalculous c...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of our study was to determine, first, if gallbladder wall striations in patients with sonographic findings suspicious for acute cholecystitis are associated with gangrenous changes and certain histologic features; and, second, if WBC count or other sonographic findings are associated with gangrenous cholecystitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty-eight patients who underwent ...

BACKGROUND In the year 2007 a group of experts come together to discuss criteria for acute cholecystitis and to establish therapeutic guidelines and states of gravity in this disease. OBJECTIVES we correlated the criteria of the Tokyo Guidelines 2007 with the anatomopathology study of the surgical specimen. SETTING Service of Urgencies of the National Clinic Hospital in Córdoba, Argentine. ...

Acalculous hemorrhagic cholecystitis is a rare complication of acute cholecystitis and is associated with a high mortality rate. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is usually not performed for the diagnosis of acute cholecystitis, but it is a valuable imaging modality and affords excellent tissue contrast for the diagnosis of hemorrhagic cholecystitis and the detection of hematoma within the gall...

cholecystitis presents as acute or chronic. severity of cholecystitis depends on several factors.  aim of this study was to evaluate severity of laparoscopic cholecystectomy findings based on gender type. in a retrospective and epidemiological study, a total of 101 patients who were underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy were selected from 2001 to 2006 in university affiliated hospitals of ahwa...

BACKGROUND Emphysematous cholecystitis is a severe variant of acute cholecystitis caused by anaerobic bacteria. Although intraperitoneal air as a complication has been described in association with emphysematous cholecystitis, pneumoretroperitoneum arising from emphysematous cholecystitis is extremely rare. Herein, we describe a rare case of pneumoretroperitoneum arising from emphysematous chol...

conclusions crp, a well-known acute phase reactant that increases rapidly in various inflammatory processes, can be accepted as a strong predictor in classifying different grades of the disease, and treatment can be reliably planned according to this classification. results mean crp levels of groups were found to be significantly different, 18.96 mg/l in group i, 133.51 mg/l in group ii, and 23...

BACKGROUND Emphysematous cholecystitis is a variant of acute cholecystitis which is generally caused by gas-forming organisms. Emphysematous cholecystitis may cause gas spreading within the subcutaneous tissue, peritoneal cavity and retroperitoneum. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of emphysematous cholecystitis in a middle-aged diabetic patient who, postoperatively, presented edema in bot...