Antibiotics for acalculous cholecystitis

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      For community acquired acute cholecystitis associated with severe physiologic disturbance (APACHE II score >15), advanced age, or immunocompromised state, the choice of antibiotics include piperacillin-tazobactam or cefepime plus metronidazole (13). Although there is little debate on the initiation of antibiotics in acute cholecystitis, the duration of therapy is more …

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    • [DOC File]RAJIV GANDHI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, …

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      Acute acalculous cholecystitis. Acute cholecystitis (AC) occurs as a result of inflammation of the gallbladder wall, usually as a result of obstruction of the cystic duct. In 90(95% of cases, AC is initiated by the impaction of a calculus in the neck of the gallbladder or in the cystic duct. ... Systemic antibiotics (the antibiotic regimen ...

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      Patients who presented to the ED primarily with acute cholecystitis fared better (84% of patients showed improvement) than inpatients (34% showed improvement; P < .0001). Gallstones were identified in 54% of patients who presented to the ED, whereas acalculous cholecystitis was more commonly diagnosed in inpatients (54%).

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    • [DOC File]A 45 year old female presents with a complaint of ...

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      The patients with clinical features and sonologic evidence of chronic calculous cholecystitis. Exclusion criteria : Patients with acalculous cholecystitis. Patients not fit or not willing for surgery. Patients presenting with complications of cholecystitis viz, CBD stones, gallstone pancreatitis, septic complications, etc,.

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      Acalculous cholecystitis typically occurs in young otherwise healthy patients and is associated with a better outcome than cholecystitis in the presence of gallstones. Chronic cholecystitis is a diagnosis based on CT findings. Gallstone ileus occurs when a gallstone passes through a cholecystoenteric fistula to cause mechanical bowel obstruction

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      Patients suspected to have acute cholecystitis should be hospitalized and started on broad spectrum antibiotics immediately. Antibiotic therapy does not substitute for drainage of AC, but it is an important adjunct. The most common bacteria isolated from bile in AC are . E. Coli, Klebsiella . spp, and . Enterococcus faecalis

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    • [DOC File]PubMed - Stanford University

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      S. aureus causes abscesses anywhere. Antibiotics penetrate abscesses, but may be inactivated. Treat most abscesses with drainage/excision and antibiotics. Antibiotics may succeed without drainage in well perfused environment including brain, lung, liver (if small, multiple), tubo–ovarian. Amebic liver abscess cured with oral metronidazole.

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    • SOME COMMON AND IMPORTANT SURGICAL INFECTIONS

      Mesenteric adenitis (n=2), biliary sludge or acalculous cholecystitis (n=6), ascites (n=6), RLQ bowel wall thickening (n=3) Mural thickening, edema, hyper-enhancement terminal ileum with extensive mesenteric fat edema, similar mural thickening of rectosigmoid colon (n=1)

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