The secondary gallbladder wall thickening is presumably due to elevated portal venous pressure and decreased intravascular osmotic pressure.
Causes of gallbladder wall thickening.
Fever and possibly chills.
Other speculated mechanisms of gallbladder wall thickening in the disease states above are increased portal venous pressure and generalized edema.
Diffuse thickening of the gallbladder wall can occur in a number of situations.
Liver cirrhosis hepatitis and congestive right heart failure are relatively frequent causes.
For the rest hypoalbuminemia is a major culprit in gallbladder wall thickening.
Pseudothickening caused by the normal postprandial state of the contracted gallbladder is also extremely common 5.
Jaundice yellowing of the skin or eyes dark urine and.
Thickening of the gallbladder wall is always abnormal although the significance of the thickening is highly dependent upon the underlying disease process.
Gallbladder wall thickening can be caused by inflammatory benign and malignant etiologies.
The case on the left is a patient with liver cirrhosis.
Symptoms of acute cholecystitis may include.
Cholecystitis acute cholecystitis chronic cholecystitis gallbladder empyema 7 xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis.
Postprandial physiological state pseudothickening gallbladder overall decompressed gallbladder overall.