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Case Rep Gastrointest Med. 2019 Apr 30;2019:5185314. doi: 10.1155/2019/5185314. eCollection 2019.

Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis with Empyema due to Salmonellosis.

Case reports in gastrointestinal medicine

Georgios D Lianos, Panagiota Drosou, Rizos Souvatzoglou, Anastasia Karampa, Georgios Vangelis, Emmanouil Angelakis, Vassilios Pappas, Epameinontas Lekkas

Affiliations

  1. Department of Surgery, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza, Greece.
  2. Anesthesiology Department, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza, Greece.

PMID: 31183222 PMCID: PMC6515067 DOI: 10.1155/2019/5185314

Abstract

Empyema of acalculous gallbladder in the setting of salmonellosis represents an extremely rare and life-threatening clinical condition in adults. In this unique case report, we deal with a previously healthy patient who developed acalculous cholecystitis and empyema due to infection by

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