ReviewWorld journal of clinical cases2021
Acute acalculous cholecystitis due to infectious causes.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Unveiling the therapeutic role of Dachaihu decoction in acute cholecystitis: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis of its efficacy and safety.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Pooled it
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- Interventional Radiology in Acute Cholecystitis: A Review of Contemporary Percutaneous Strategies and Emerging Techniques.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Case Report: Acute acalculous cholecystitis due toFrontiers in surgery · 2026Article
- The Microbiological Spectrum and Antibiotic Resistance in Acute Acalculous and Calculous Cholecystitis: A Seven-Year Study in a Tertiary Center.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- A rare case of acalculous cholecystitis secondary to mycoplasma pneumoniae in a pediatric patient: a case report and literature review.Radiology case reports · 2025Article
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- Acalculous Cholecystitis as an Atypical Presentation of Viral Pericarditis: A Case Report.The American journal of case reports · 2025Article
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- Clinical analysis of infectious mononucleosis complicated with acute acalculous cholecystitis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- HAV-induced acalculous cholecystitis: A case report and literature review.Clinical case reports · 2023Article
- Man with right periumbilical pain.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2023Article
- Acute acalculous cholecystitis in a pediatric dengue hemorrhagic fever patient: A case report, lesson learned from limited resource setting.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Article
- Use of Gallbladder Width Measurement by Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis of Acute Cholecystitis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Acalculous Cholecystitis in a Young Adult with Scrub Typhus: A Case Report and Epidemiology of Scrub Typhus in the Maldives.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2021Article
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Abstract
Acute acalculous cholecystitis (AAC) is an inflammation of the gallbladder not associated with the presence of gallstones. It usually occurs in critically ill patients but it has also been implicated as a cause of cholecystitis in previously healthy individuals. In this subgroup of patients, infectious causes comprise the primary etiology. We, herein, discuss the pathophysiological mechanisms involved in AAC, focusing on the infectious causes. AAC associated with critical medical conditions is caused by bile stasis and gallbladder ischemia. Several mechanisms are reported to be involved in AAC in patients without underlying critical illness including direct invasion of the gallbladder epithelial cells, gallbladder vasculitis, obstruction of the biliary tree, and sequestration. We emphasize that multiple pathogenic mechanisms may concurrently contribute to the development of AAC in varying degrees. Awareness of the implicated pathogens is essential since it will allow a more focused examination of the histopathological specimens. In conclusion, additional research and a high degree of clinical suspicion are needed to clarify the complex spectrum of mechanisms that are involved in the pathogenesis of AAC.
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