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Acalculous cholecystitis (AAC) is a well known complication in critically ill patients. Risk factors include mechanical ventilation, total parenteral nutrition and multiple blood transfusions. AAC has very rarely been described in patients undergoing allogeneic BMT. We report a case of AAC in a 25-year old female occuring after successful allografting for acute myeloid leukemia. The patient presented with leukocytosis, acute abdominal pain, right upper quadrant guarding and laboratory signs of liver dysfunction coincidentally with oral recontamination 38 days after BMT. AAC was diagnosed during explorative laparatomy and cholecystectomy was performed. Following surgery the patient developed acute graft versus host disease but recovered completely.
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PMID:Acute acalculous cholecystitis complicating oral recontamination after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. 2159 Jan 49

A 48-year-old man was admitted to our hospital complaining of acute severe abdominal pain and constipation. He had received bone marrow transplantation for acute myelogenous leukemia 5 months previously and immunosuppressant treatment for chronic graft-versus-host disease. Abdominal X-ray and CT scan films revealed his large intestine widely dilated and filled with air, and colonic pseudo-obstruction was diagnosed. It was difficult to ascertain the cause of the symptoms until 6 days after onset of the abdominal pain when disseminated zoster eruption appeared over his whole body. It was disseminated varicella-zoster and complicated with colonic pseudo-obstruction. He was treated with acyclovir. It is important to suspect disseminated varicella-zoster and treat early immunocompromised patients complaining of severe acute abdominal pain and colonic pseudo-obstruction.
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PMID:[Disseminated varicella-zoster virus infection complicated with severe abdominal pain and colonic pseudo-obstruction]. 2364 40