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Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis

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Acute Cholecystitis

Abstract

Acute cholecystitis may develop at any time when gallstones are present. The likelihood of this disease developing appears to accelerate once symptoms develop. Acute acalculous cholecystitis (AAC) is now a well recognized complication of serious medical and surgical illnesses [1–3] and is being diagnosed more frequently in critically ill patients [4]. The mortality rate of AAC remains at least 30 % because of the potential obscurity of the diagnosis, the underlying illnesses of the affected patients, and because of the potential rapid progression of the disease to gangrenous cholecystitis and gallbladder perforation (~10 %) [5].

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Barie, P.S., Eachempati, S.R. (2015). Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis. In: Eachempati, S., Reed, II, R. (eds) Acute Cholecystitis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14824-3_15

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