Causes Of Gallbladder Wall Thickening

It can be caused by multiple factors and conditions including renal failure liver failure heart failure ascites hypoproteinemia and inflammation.

Causes of gallbladder wall thickening.

The case on the left is a patient with liver cirrhosis. Jaundice yellowing of the skin or eyes dark urine and. 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. Diffuse thickening of the gallbladder wall can occur in a number of situations.

Fever and possibly chills. Pseudothickening caused by the normal postprandial state of the contracted gallbladder is also extremely common 5. For the rest hypoalbuminemia is a major culprit in gallbladder wall thickening. The secondary gallbladder wall thickening is presumably due to elevated portal venous pressure and decreased intravascular osmotic pressure.

Alone or as a secondary mechanism in patients with cirrhosis heart failure or renal disease. Postprandial physiological state pseudothickening gallbladder overall decompressed gallbladder overall. Cholecystitis acute cholecystitis chronic cholecystitis gallbladder empyema 7 xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis. Gallbladder wall thickening can be caused by inflammatory benign and malignant etiologies.

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