Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis

BACKGROUND Acute acalculous cholecystitis (AAC) is a serious complication of critical illness. We evaluated the underlying… (More)

Dengue fever (DF) with acute acalculous cholecystitis is rarely reported. To investigate the incidence, treatment, and prognosis… (More)

Acute cholecystitis can develop without gallstones in critically ill or injured patients. However, the development of acute… (More)

BACKGROUND Acute acalculous cholecystitis is a well recognized complication of many acute illnesses. Ischaemia of the gallbladder… (More)

Acute acalculous cholecystitis, inflammation of the gall-bladder without evidence of calculi, accounts for 2 to 15% of all cases… (More)

Ischemia is one mechanism implicated in the pathogenesis of acute acalculous cholecystitis. Gallbladder specimen arteriography… (More)

Acute acalculous cholecystitis is an acute inflammation of the gall bladder without stones. It was once considered a rare… (More)

Thirty-two patients with acute acalculous cholecystitis are presented. The age of the patients ranged from 1 to 80 years, with an… (More)

Nine cases of acute acalculous cholecystitis were diagnosed in the surgical intensive care unit at Hartford Hospital during a 2… (More)

Sixty-three patients, 49 men and 14 women, developed acute cholecystitis without gallbladder stones. Only eight patients had a… (More)