Acute cholecystitis

Description

Acute inflammation of the gall bladder wall that typically affects critically ill patients. Risk factors are trauma, major surgery, bile stasis and gallbladder ischemia. The inflammation is evoked by mechanical, chemical, vascular, and bacterial inflammatory factors.

Inclusions

• acute acalculous cholecystitis

Excludes

• DC11.0 – Calculus of gallbladder or cystic duct with acute cholecystitis
• DC11.5 – Calculus of bile duct with cholecystitis

Exclusions from above levels

• DC11 – Cholelithiasis
• 01 – Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
• 02 – Neoplasms