This case involves a 35-year-old male with a past medical history of fibromyalgia who had his gallbladder laparoscopically removed. The patient was discharged the same day but presented to the emergency room two days later in septic shock. Surgery was…
This case involves a middle-aged male patient who suffered complications following gallbladder surgery. The patient required an endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography (ERCP) to determine proper treatment course. Within days of receiving the ERCP, the patient became infected with E. Coli. A microbiologist familiar with…
This case involves a middle-aged male patient in Wyoming who was morbidly obese patient who suffered from an infected surgical incision following surgery. The patient presented to a general surgeon for what was initially supposed to be a routine gallbladder…
This case involves a fifty-six-year-old male patient who underwent a single incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The procedure was met with some complication as it was noted that the patient had an intrahepatic gallbladder with severe scarring at the triangle of Calot…
This case involves a 46-year-old female patient who presented to the hospital for elective cholecystectomy. The patient was admitted to the hospital for almost a week to rule out the possibility of gall bladder carcinoma and was kept NPO for…
