{"id":867,"date":"2011-02-01T18:01:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T16:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magazine.enne.gr\/?p=867"},"modified":"2026-11-03T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:17:00","slug":"acute-cholecystitis-from-er-to-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/acute-cholecystitis-from-er-to-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Acute Cholecystitis: From ER to Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Background:<\/strong> Biliary lithiasis is one of the most common diseases worldwide. Cholecystectomy is its main treatment. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is considered as a first choice treatment in most cases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Material and methods:<\/strong> One hundred and twelve patients were recruited for the present study, after visiting the emergency department of the University General Hospital of Larissa, where a diagnosis of biliary lithiasis was established. A questionnaire with both open and closed \u2013type questions was used.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Results:<\/strong> Women represented 54,5% of our sample. Positive ultrasonography findings were present in the majority of patients, while leucocytosis was found in 52.7%. Almost all of the patients were admitted to the surgical department and most of them underwent a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The vast majority of those patients, who had a similar attack in the past, had already undergone ultrasonography investigation, and a biochemistry test had been performed in half of them, in primary care settings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Conclusions:<\/strong> The incidence of cholelithiasis and its dangerous complications warrant a thorough investigation of these patients.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Key words:<\/strong> Biliary lithiasis, Laparoscopy, Hospitalization, Emergency Department,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSTRACT Background: Biliary lithiasis is one of the most common diseases worldwide. Cholecystectomy is its main treatment. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is considered as a first choice treatment<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[389,419,420,360],"eidos-arthrou":[1806],"keyword":[2010,2013,2012,2011],"language":[1841],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iss_4_3","tag-giorgos-arvanitis","tag-charisi-evagelia","tag-ifantis-a","tag-marneras-christos","eidos-arthrou-arthro-sintaksis","keyword-biliary-lithiasis","keyword-emergency-department","keyword-hospitalization","keyword-laparoscopy","language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9421,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/9421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"eidos-arthrou","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eidos-arthrou?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}