TORONTO — For patients with acute cholecystitis, CT is not yet accurate enough to go straight from a scan to a treatment plan, new research shows. "My personal hypothesis was that CT was going ...

Clinicians prefer ultrasounds to other forms of imaging, such as CT scans, due to their speed, accessibility, and lack of radiation. Around 95% of cholecystitis cases occur due to gallstones ...

A computed tomography (CT) scan may be used if an ultrasound doesn’t produce adequate images. If acute cholecystitis isn’t seen on other imaging tests, another procedure called a hepatobiliary ...

To diagnose cholecystitis, doctors will take a complete medical history and perform a physical examination, blood tests, and imaging tests, which may include ultrasound, CT scan, or hepatobiliary ...

Cholecystitis is the sudden inflammation of your gallbladder. If this condition persists over time, such as for months, with repeated attacks, or if there are recurrent problems with gallbladder ...

Abdominal CT scan or ultrasound scanning are not routinely done for all cardiac patients hence clinically silent cases of acute cholecystitis may have been missed. The cases which have developed ...

Acute cholecystitis is an inflammation of the gallbladder ... The dye will help your doctor detect any problems with your gallbladder. A HIDA scan can help your doctor track and identify an ...

Cholecystitis is an inflammation of the gallbladder ... biliary tract and small intestine. Abdominal CT scan: This test may be performed to get detailed pictures of the gallbladder along with ...

1 The thought-provoking angle was not the computed tomography (CT) imaging, but rather the description of a “benign” form of acalculous cholecystitis associated with Epstein–Barr virus infection.