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    Teach you about cholecystitis

    • Last Update: 2021-04-18
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    Ultrasound manifestations of cholecystitis Cholecystitis is a common clinical disease and frequently-occurring disease: According to the condition, it can be divided into acute cholecystitis and chronic cholecystitis; according to the cause can be divided into calculi, biliary infection, gallbladder dysfunction Sex.

    Clinical manifestations: The typical clinical manifestations of acute cholecystitis are pain in the right upper abdomen, fever, and positive peritoneal irritation (Murphy's sign); chronic cholecystitis, due to repeated attacks of inflammation, causes gallbladder wall adhesion, thickening of the gallbladder wall, and scar fibrosis Formation, eventually leading to atrophy of the gallbladder, hypofunction or loss of function.

    Ultrasound manifestations: cholecystitis manifests as roughness and thickening of the gallbladder wall on ultrasound images.
    If it exceeds 3mm, it can be considered as cholecystitis.

    Acute obstructive cholecystitis, mostly caused by stones, the gallbladder is enlarged, full-shaped, and high-tension; acute suppurative cholecystitis, floccules can be seen floating echoes in the gallbladder; acute bacterial cholecystitis, inflammatory exudative edema of the cyst wall , Showing "bilateral sign"; chronic cholecystitis, thickening of the cyst wall, atrophy of the gallbladder, no obvious bile filling.

    For patients with simple gallbladder wall roughness, the diagnosis of cholecystitis needs to be cautious, especially in patients with normal gallbladder morphology and no abnormal sound and image manifestations in the cavity, it should be considered as a normal variant.

    In patients with liver cirrhosis, ascites, and hypoproteinemia, thickening of the gallbladder wall is a coexistent manifestation of these diseases.
    If there is no other evidence, cholecystitis cannot be diagnosed rashly.
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