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Research Notes on Acalculous Cholecystitis
Acalculous cholecystitis is an inflammation of the gallbladder in the absence of gall stones.1 It is a rare disorder most commonly seen in critically ill people.2 Acalculous cholecystitis occurs in about 5% to 10% of all cases of cholecystitis.3
Fast Facts:
- Caused by various long standing conditions including sickle cell disease, diabetes and AIDS.4
- Immediate causes of acalculous cholecystitis include burns, severe trauma, and pancreatitis.5
- Standard treatment is surgery.6
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What is Acalculous Cholecystitis?
- Answers.com: Acalculous Cholecystitis
- Oxbridge Solutions Ltd (via GP Notebook): Acalculous Cholecystitis
- Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (via HealthAtoZ): Gallstones: Definitions
What are the Symptoms of Acalculous Cholecystitis?
- Merck Manuals: Signs and Symptoms: Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis
- Wikipedia: Cholecystitis: Symptoms
- eMedicine: Acalculous Cholecystitis: Clinical
What are the Causes and Complications of Acalculous Cholecystitis?
- Healthwise (via WebMD): Cholecystitis: What Causes Cholecystitis?
- Vesalius: Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis: Epidemiology and Risk Factors
- MeditLine: Case Report: Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis - A Rare Complication of Burn Injury: A Case Report
What are the Treatments and Medications for Acalculous Cholecystitis?
- Vesalius: Acute Acalulous Cholecystitis: Diagnosis and Treatment
- American Academy of Family Physicians: How Should Biliary Colic Without Stone Be Treated?
- Merck Manuals: Cholecystitis: Treatment
What are the Types, Stages and Survival Rates of Acalculous Cholecystitis?
- eMedicine: Acalculous Cholecystitis: Mortality/Morbidity | Cholecystitis, Acalculous: Mortality/Morbidity
- Answers.com: Cholecystitis: Prognosis
Wisdom, Blogs, and Message Boards about Acalculous Cholecystitis
- MedHelp: Acalculous Cholecystitis Diagnosis
- eHealthForum: Acalculous Cholecystitis
- Internal Medicine: Cholecystitis
- The International Blog of Surgery: Acute Calculous Cholecystitis
- HealthBoards: Gall Bladder Pain
Foundations and Support Groups on Acalculous Cholecystitis
- AGA: American Gastroenterological Association
- NDDIC: National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse
- NIDDK: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Scientific and Medical Journal Articles on Acalculous Cholecystitis
- Google Scholar: Acalculous Cholecystitis Articles
- JAMA: Archive of Acalculous Cholecystitis Articles
- PubMed Central: List of Acalculous Cholecystitis Articles
Clinical Trials on Acalculous Cholecystitis
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Acalculous Cholecystitis Clinical Trials
Research Notes References
- ↑ Oxbridge Solutions Ltd (via GP Notebook): Acalculous Cholecystitis
- ↑ Healthwise (via WebMD): Cholecystitis: What Causes Cholecystitis?
- ↑ Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (via HealthAtoZ): Gallstones: Definitions
- ↑ Vesalius: Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis
- ↑ MeditLine: Case Report: Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis: A Rare Complication of Burn Injury: A Case Report: Introduction
- ↑ Dr.Koop: Gallstones and Gallbladder Disease - Surgery
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- Reviewer: Tara Salamone
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- Last update: Oct. 14, 2009
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