Natural Course of Acute Cholecystitis in Patients Treated With Percutaneous Transhepatic Gallbladder Drainage Without Elective Cholecystectomy.

Yu-Liang HungSio-Wai ChongChi-Tung ChengChien-Hung LiaoChih-Yuan FuChi-Hsun HsiehTa-Sen YehChun-Nan YehYi-Yin JanShang Yu Wang

Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2019)

Definitive cholecystectomy is still recommended for patients undergoing PTGBD treatment due to the high incidence of later biliary events. A thorough preoperative evaluation is necessary for those patients before elective cholecystectomy because of the inferior life expectancy and physical status.

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patients undergoing
end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
ultrasound guided
mental health
liver failure
prognostic factors
physical activity
minimally invasive
squamous cell carcinoma
patient reported outcomes
hepatitis b virus
patient reported