CHORUS
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Liver and biliary system
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acalculous cholecystitis
etiology:
- depressed motility and starvation: trauma, burns,
surgery, TPN, anesthesia, narcotics
- decreased blood flow through cystic artery: CHF,
arteriosclerosis, polyarteritis nodosa,
SLE, diabetes, shock
- obstruction of cystic duct by extrinsic inflammation,
lymphadenopathy, metastases
- infection: Salmonella, cholera, Kawasaki syndrome
Yong H. Hahn, MD - 2 February 1995
Last updated: 1 October 2013
Copyright © 2013, Charles E. Kahn, Jr.
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