Abstract

CARABALLOSO GARCIA, Victor Juan et al. Practical Guide of acute cholecystitis in the pediatric age. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 2020, vol.92, n.2, e1012.  Epub Apr 15, 2020. ISSN 0034-7531.

Acute cholecystitis is the acute inflammation of the gall bladder caused by the obstruction of the bile output usually caused by gallstones (lytos). It has been estimated that the incidence of this entity in children is between 0.15 and 0.22 %, with a significant increase in puberty. Acute cholecystitis is the most common complication of cholelithiasis and it is present in the 6 to 22% of the symptomatic patients with an average onset between the seven to eleven years of follow-up. Due to the importance of clinical manifestations in the diagnostic and therapeutic behaviour, they are divided into grade I (mild), grade II (moderate), grade III (severe). The diagnosis is carried out taking into account the history of lithiasis, and persistent biliary colic, vomiting and fever are the most constant clinical elements. Abdominal ultrasound is the most widely used imaging study to corroborate the diagnosis. The most important pillars are the broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy, the treatment of pain and the accompanying symptoms as well as the surgical approach. This last can go from a cholecystectomy in severe cases or conventional video-assisted laparoscopic cholecystectomy depending on the institution's resources and the experience of the medical staff. Between the complications, we can find vesicular empyema, vesicular gangrene, vesicular perforation, vesicular plastron, subphrenic abscess, acute pancreatitis, ileus gallstone, external biliary fistula, internal biliary fistula, Mirizzi syndrome, and obstructive acute suppurative cholangitis.

Keywords : acute cholecystiti; pediatric age.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )