The need for new "patient-related" guidelines for the treatment of acute cholecystitis

Heterogeneity of patients affected by acute cholecystitis, and their co-morbidities make very difficult to standardize the therapy for this very common condition. The staging system suggested in the recent "Tokyo guidelines", did not show a relevant impact on the management of patients and...

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Autores principales: Campanile, Fabio C, Catena, Fausto, Coccolini, Federico, Lotti, Marco, Piazzalunga, Dario, Pisano, Michele, Ansaloni, Luca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3287137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22192618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-6-44
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Sumario:Heterogeneity of patients affected by acute cholecystitis, and their co-morbidities make very difficult to standardize the therapy for this very common condition. The staging system suggested in the recent "Tokyo guidelines", did not show a relevant impact on the management of patients and on the outcome of the disease. The relation among local pathological picture, patient clinical status and treatment algorithm, has to be better studied.

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