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Bacterobilia In Acute Cholecystitis: Bile Cultures' Isolates, Antibiotic Sensitivities And Antibiotic Usage. A Study On A Pakistani Population., Yousaf Bashir Hadi,, Muhammad Waqas, Hafiz Muhammad Umer,, Ammar Alam, Abdul Rehman Alvi, Muhammad Rizwan Khan
Bacterobilia In Acute Cholecystitis: Bile Cultures' Isolates, Antibiotic Sensitivities And Antibiotic Usage. A Study On A Pakistani Population., Yousaf Bashir Hadi,, Muhammad Waqas, Hafiz Muhammad Umer,, Ammar Alam, Abdul Rehman Alvi, Muhammad Rizwan Khan
Department of Surgery
Abstract
Acute cholecystitis is one of the most common acute surgical conditions. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy remains the mainstay of treatment. In patients managed non-operatively, antibiotics play an important role in the treatment of cholecystitis. The current retrospective observational study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, and comprised medical records of patients admitted between 2008 and 2014with acute cholecystitis and in whom bile cultures were obtained. Of the 509 patients with a mean age of 51.15 ± 13.4years, early laparoscopic cholecystectomy (within 72hours) was performed on 473(92.9%) cases, while the rest underwent percutaneous cholecystostomy. Bile cultureswere positive in 171(33.6%) …