Gangrenous cholecystitis: A silent but potential fatal disease in patients with diabetic neuropathy. A case report

Gangrenous cholecystitis (GC) is a severe and potentially deadly complication of acute cholecystitis. We present a 83-year-old gentleman with a past medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus with significant associated neuropathy, presenting to a community hospital in a major metropolitan area wit...

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Autores principales: Mehrzad, Melorin, Jehle, Charles C, Roussel, Lauren O, Mehrzad, Raman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6288495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30568955
http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v6.i15.1007
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description Gangrenous cholecystitis (GC) is a severe and potentially deadly complication of acute cholecystitis. We present a 83-year-old gentleman with a past medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus with significant associated neuropathy, presenting to a community hospital in a major metropolitan area with 10 days nausea and vomiting and a benign abdominal exam. While the patient was admitted for hyperglycemia, he was subsequently found to have severe GC requiring urgent surgical intervention.
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spelling pubmed-62884952018-12-19 Gangrenous cholecystitis: A silent but potential fatal disease in patients with diabetic neuropathy. A case report Mehrzad, Melorin Jehle, Charles C Roussel, Lauren O Mehrzad, Raman World J Clin Cases Case Report Gangrenous cholecystitis (GC) is a severe and potentially deadly complication of acute cholecystitis. We present a 83-year-old gentleman with a past medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus with significant associated neuropathy, presenting to a community hospital in a major metropolitan area with 10 days nausea and vomiting and a benign abdominal exam. While the patient was admitted for hyperglycemia, he was subsequently found to have severe GC requiring urgent surgical intervention. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2018-12-06 2018-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6288495/ /pubmed/30568955 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v6.i15.1007 Text en ©The Author(s) 2018. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial.
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Gangrenous cholecystitis: A silent but potential fatal disease in patients with diabetic neuropathy. A case report
title Gangrenous cholecystitis: A silent but potential fatal disease in patients with diabetic neuropathy. A case report
title_full Gangrenous cholecystitis: A silent but potential fatal disease in patients with diabetic neuropathy. A case report
title_fullStr Gangrenous cholecystitis: A silent but potential fatal disease in patients with diabetic neuropathy. A case report
title_full_unstemmed Gangrenous cholecystitis: A silent but potential fatal disease in patients with diabetic neuropathy. A case report
title_short Gangrenous cholecystitis: A silent but potential fatal disease in patients with diabetic neuropathy. A case report
title_sort gangrenous cholecystitis: a silent but potential fatal disease in patients with diabetic neuropathy. a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6288495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30568955
http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v6.i15.1007
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