Causes Of Gallbladder Wall Thickening

Liver cirrhosis hepatitis and congestive right heart failure are relatively frequent causes.

Causes of gallbladder wall thickening.

The case on the left is a patient with liver cirrhosis. Fever and possibly chills. Cholecystitis acute cholecystitis chronic cholecystitis gallbladder empyema 7 xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis. It can be caused by multiple factors and conditions including renal failure liver failure heart failure ascites hypoproteinemia and inflammation.

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. Pseudothickening caused by the normal postprandial state of the contracted gallbladder is also extremely common 5. Alone or as a secondary mechanism in patients with cirrhosis heart failure or renal disease.

Diffuse thickening of the gallbladder wall can occur in a number of situations. Other speculated mechanisms of gallbladder wall thickening in the disease states above are increased portal venous pressure and generalized edema. The secondary gallbladder wall thickening is presumably due to elevated portal venous pressure and decreased intravascular osmotic pressure. Symptoms of acute cholecystitis may include.

Thickening of the gallbladder wall is always abnormal although the significance of the thickening is highly dependent upon the underlying disease process.