BACKGROUND Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is an infrequent clinical condition usually associated with multiple etiological factors and diseases. In some cases, PVT remains undiagnosed and is incidentally detected during routine examination for a known etiology. CASE REPORT Here, we present a rare case of portal vein thrombosis associated with acute cholecystitis in a 31-year-old man. CONCLUSI...

Gallbladder stasis is associated to experimental acute cholecystitis. Impaired contractility could be, at least in part, the result of inflammation-induced alterations in the neuromuscular function. This study was designed to determine the changes in gallbladder neurotransmission evoked by acute inflammation and to evaluate the protective and therapeutic effects of melatonin. Experimental acute...

BACKGROUND Gallbladder involvement during primary Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection in adults is rare. CASE REPORT We report the case of a 29-year-old female with acute acalculous cholecystitis associated with EBV infection. The patient was successfully treated with conservative therapy. CONCLUSIONS Clinicians should be aware that acute acalculous cholecystitis may be present during viral ...

Renal cell carcinoma constitutes about 3% of adult malignancies. It has a high metastatic potential associated with synchronous or metachronous metastatic disease. Further, it is known to metastasize mainly to the lung, bone, brain, liver, or adrenal glands. In very rare cases it can metastasize to the gallbladder mimicking acute cholecystitis on clinical exam. In this case we present a patient...

UNLABELLED In the laparoscopic surgery of acute cholecystitis, no identification of anatomic structures in Calot triangle prevents the retrograde disection. Therefore, the anterograde disection of gall bladder, which we often use in open cholecystectomy, was applied as an alternative method in laparoscopic cholecystectomy in our 2 cases. Through this method, the safety of the attempt was increa...

In elderly patients, numerous factors subsidize the diagnostic challenge and high incidence of complications in this specific population, taking gangrenous cholecystitis as a critical example. The aim of this work is to report an unusual case of gangrenous choleystitis in an elderly diabetic women and its atypical clinical presentation. A 79-year-old female patient came to our observation; her ...

A very uncommon complication of acute cholecystitis is the development of a pseudoaneurysm in an arterial branch of the hepatic artery. We report a rare case of a patient with acute cholecystitis who presented with a pseudoaneurysm of the right anterior hepatic artery complicated by necrosis of the bile duct and hepatic infarction. A 70-year-old woman attended the emergency department with an u...