Causes Of Gallbladder Wall Thickening

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Causes of gallbladder wall thickening.

Symptoms of acute cholecystitis may include. The case on the left is a patient with liver cirrhosis. Diffuse thickening of the gallbladder wall can occur in a number of situations. The secondary gallbladder wall thickening is presumably due to elevated portal venous pressure and decreased intravascular osmotic pressure.

Gallbladder wall thickening can be caused by inflammatory benign and malignant etiologies. Pseudothickening caused by the normal postprandial state of the contracted gallbladder is also extremely common 5. Postprandial physiological state pseudothickening gallbladder overall decompressed gallbladder overall. You may feel this discomfort in the center of the upper abdomen just below the breastbone or in the upper right portion of the abdomen.

Jaundice yellowing of the skin or eyes dark urine and. Alone or as a secondary mechanism in patients with cirrhosis heart failure or renal disease. Cholecystitis acute cholecystitis chronic cholecystitis gallbladder empyema 7 xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis. Thickening of the gallbladder wall is always abnormal although the significance of the thickening is highly dependent upon the underlying disease process.

Other speculated mechanisms of gallbladder wall thickening in the disease states above are increased portal venous pressure and generalized edema.