The most common cause of cholecystitis is gallstones. Less common causes include severe illness or infection, tumors, and injury or trauma. Cholecystitis is the medical term for gallbladder ...

Ischemic cholecystitis is a form of gallbladder inflammation that occurs without gallstones or another form of external compression. It is caused by poor perfusion to the gallbladder tissue. This new ...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was recently released from the hospital after being diagnosed and treated for acute cholecystitis — a benign gallbladder condition. While acute cholecystitis ...

Management strategies for ischaemic cholecystitis. PTGD, percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage. Ischaemic cholecystitis is a form of gallbladder inflammation that occurs without gallstones or ...

THE preoperative diagnosis of gaseous cholecystitis has been comparatively rare, and in the absence of surgical or post-mortem examination, its detection is only possible by roentgenographic ...

Should surgery be performed immediately, or is it better to first administer antibiotics and then perform surgery? A study led by Heidelberg University Hospital Department of Surgery has demonstrated ...

Painful gallstones are common during pregnancy. The pain can be intense, coming on suddenly, increasing and often radiating to the back. When gallstones cause inflammation of the gallbladder, a ...

Phantom gallbladder pain is commonly due to post-cholecystectomy syndrome. It occurs when symptoms around the gallbladder mimic cholecystitis pain but stem from a different cause. Post-cholecystectomy ...

Background Selective approach for sending cholecystectomy specimens for histopathology results in missing discrete pathologies such as premalignant benign lesions such as porcelain gallbladder, ...

Gallbladder adhesions happen when scar tissue develops around your gallbladder after surgery or an episode of inflammation. Gallbladder adhesions are bands of scar tissue that form on your gallbladder ...