Percutaneous cholecystostomy without interval cholecystectomy as definitive treatment of acute cholecystitis in elderly and critically Ill patients

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 586-590

  Griniatsos, John ^a   Petrou, Athanasios ^a,b   Pappas, Paris ^a   Revenas, Konstantinos ^a   Karavokyros, Ioannis ^a   Michail, Othon P ^a   Tsigris, Christos ^a   Giannopoulos, Athanasios ^a   Felekouras, Evangelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute cholecystitis; Early cholecystectomy; Elderly patients; Outcome; Percutaneous cholecystostomy

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; METRONIDAZOLE; SULTAMICILLIN;

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AXILLA TEMPERATURE; BLOOD CELL; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMORBIDITY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEMENTIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FOLLOW UP; GALLSTONE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEOPLASM; OBESITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ACUTE DISEASE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; INTENSIVE CARE; METHODOLOGY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 45149123030     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181757b77     Document Type: Article

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