Chronic cholecystitis

The article presents modern concepts of chronic cholecystitis – concept and definitions, epidemiology, classification, main mechanisms of disease development, diagnosis and treatment.
Chronic cholecystitis is a chronic disease caused by ongoing inflammation of the gallbladder, leading to mechanical or physiological dysfunction of its emptying. There are two forms of chronic cholecystitis – calculous (occurring against the background of cholelithiasis) and acalculous (without gallstones).

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