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Overview
Historical Perspective
Discovery
Gallstone related diseases have an ancient history. Gallstones are found in 3500 years old Egyptian mummies during the autopsies.[1]
- In 1420, Antonio Benivieni was the first to describe gallstones.
- In 1658, Francis Glisson described his own biliary colic attacks, “from which there is no release except by death”. He also described the liver capsule that bears his name.
- In 1687, Stalpert von der Wiel found gallstones accidentally during the surgery of a purulent upper abdominal abscess in a patient with a long history of abdominal pain.
Outbreaks
- There have been several outbreaks of [disease name], which are summarized below:
Landmark Events in the Development of Treatment Strategies
The landmarks in the development of treatment strategies for acute cholecystitis are:[2][3]
- In 1733, Jean-Louis Petit, a Parisian surgeon suggested that if biliary colic occurred in association with reddening of the abdominal skin, the surgeon should lance the area,
remove the gallstones, and leave a gall fistula. In 1743, he performed such procedure.
- In 1859, when J. L. W. Thudichum proposed a two-stage elective cholecystostomy.
- In 1882, Langenbuch performed the first cholecystectomy of a 43-year-old man who had suffered from biliary colic for sixteen years.
- By 1890, 47 cholecystectomies were performed by twenty-seven surgeons, and in 1897 the number had risen to nearly a hundred operations with a mortality of less than 20%.
- Historically, open cholecystectomy was the treatment employed for the treatment of acute cholecystitis.
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy was developed to treat acute cholecystitis and the shift from open to laparoscopic cholecystectomy occurred in the late 1980s.
Impact on Cultural History
Famous Cases
- The following are a few famous cases of disease name:
References
- ↑ Stinton LM, Myers RP, Shaffer EA (2010). "Epidemiology of gallstones". Gastroenterol. Clin. North Am. 39 (2): 157–69, vii. doi:10.1016/j.gtc.2010.02.003. PMID 20478480.
- ↑ Traverso LW (1976). "Carl Langenbuch and the first cholecystectomy". Am. J. Surg. 132 (1): 81–2. PMID 782269.
- ↑ Knab LM, Boller AM, Mahvi DM (2014). "Cholecystitis". Surg. Clin. North Am. 94 (2): 455–70. doi:10.1016/j.suc.2014.01.005. PMID 24679431.