title: Percutaneous cholecystostomy in patient at high risk. Treatment of acute acalculous cholecystitis.
abstract: Percutaneous cholecystostomy can be a useful technique for the ill, elderly, or high-risk patient, since he or she is spared open surgery. We used it successfully in a medically unstable woman with acute acalculous cholecystitis. Her drainage catheter, often the source of complications with the procedure, may have been removed too early: A small asymptomatic subdiaphragmatic fluid collection and ileus developed. However, both resolved in 48 hours.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D012306:Risk