Early percutaneous cholecystostomy versus antibiotic treatment for mild and moderate acute cholecystitis: A retrospective cohort study.

CONCLUSION: For patients with mild/moderate AC without emergent cholecystectomy, early PC might expedite sepsis resolution and improve the treatment success rate compared with antibiotic treatment alone. This result should be deemed as hypothesis-generating and should be examined in a randomized controlled trial.
PMID: 30293928 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: J Formos Med Assoc - October 4, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Wang CH, Wu CY, Lien WC, Liu KL, Wang HP, Wu YM, Chen SC Tags: J Formos Med Assoc Source Type: research