Cholecystitis is acute or chronic inflammation of the gallbladder that usually occurs due to a gallstone getting stuck in the opening. It can cause abdominal bloating, nausea, and vomiting.

Gangrenous cholecystitis occurs when a blockage in the gallbladder causes inflammation, loss of blood supply, and tissue death. Treatment is critical.

Acute calculous cholecystitis is a complication of cholelithiasis, a condition that afflicts more than 20 million Americans annually 1 and results in direct costs of more than $6.3 billion. 2 Most ...

Acute cholecystitis is an inflammation of the gallbladder. The gallbladder is an organ that sits below your liver and helps your body digest fat. Cholecystitis can become very severe and in most ...

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Cholecystitis is the inflammation and irritation of your gallbladder—the pear-shaped, digestive organ that sits beneath the liver, on the right side of your abdomen. This condition is often a ...

Emphysematous cholecystitis is caused by gas-forming bacteria that infect the gallbladder following necrosis (organ death) in the gallbladder due to a lack of blood supply.

One hundred and forty-five patients with a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, cholelithiasis and cholecystitis were admitted to the Massachusetts General Hospital during the fourteen-year period ...

Ischaemic cholecystitis is a rare but serious condition that is more common in patients who are critically ill. Clinicians need to be aware of this condition to diagnose and treat it promptly.

April 30, 2010 (UPDATED May 25, 2010) — In patients with symptomatic cholelithiasis, several clinical and demographic factors increase the probability of acute cholecystitis, according to a ...

From 2005 to 2016, postmarketing cases of acute cholecystitis were identified in 21 patients taking exenatide (Byetta), in seven taking dulaglutide (Trulicity), ...

This study, conducted from 2016 to 2018, included 32,527 Medicare beneficiaries with multimorbidity hospitalized emergently with acute cholecystitis. Median age was 78.8, 54.2% were men, and 86.2% ...