BACKGROUND Acute acalculous cholecystitis (AAC) is traditionally known to occur in critically ill patients, following cardiac surgery, abdominal vascular surgery, severe trauma, burns, prolonged fasting, total parenteral nutrition, or sepsis, and is believed to have a worse prognosis as compared with acute cholecystitis associated with stones. Our observation of de novo presentation of AAC in s...

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 Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has increasingly been accepted as the procedure of choice for treatment acute cholecystitis (AC). However, timing this in management AC remains controversial. Hence study was conducted to assess feasibility early laparoscopic cholecystitis. Materials and methods Patients who presented with symptoms such pain tenderness right upper quadrant, systemic ...

ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of laparoscopic cholecystectomies performed by residents first second-year a general surgery residency program. We studied primary total cost treatment complication rates as outcomes, comparing groups operated senior resident surgeons. Methods: this was retrospective cohort study patients who underwent cholecystectomy in training hosp...

introduction iran is amongst endemic countries for fasciola hepatica. individuals can become infected by consumption of contaminated uncooked green vegetables. in the chronic cases, symptoms are fever, vague abdominal pain with eosinophilia. patients sometimes have symptoms and signs of hepatobiliary involvements such as cholangitis and cholecystitis. case presentation here we present a unique ...

OBJECTIVE Acute cholecystitis has been considered as a relative or absolute contraindication to laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The purpose of this study is to present our experience of laparoscopic cholecystectomy as a safe and effective treatment of acute cholecystitis. METHODS Laparoscopic cholecystectomy was offered to 34 consecutive patients with acute calculous cholecystitis, diagnosed ac...