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.
For the rest hypoalbuminemia is a major culprit in gallbladder wall thickening.
Jaundice yellowing of the skin or eyes dark urine and.
Gallbladder wall thickening can be caused by inflammatory benign and malignant etiologies.
Pseudothickening caused by the normal postprandial state of the contracted gallbladder is also extremely common 5.
Other speculated mechanisms of gallbladder wall thickening in the disease states above are increased portal venous pressure and generalized edema.
The secondary gallbladder wall thickening is presumably due to elevated portal venous pressure and decreased intravascular osmotic pressure.
Cholecystitis acute cholecystitis chronic cholecystitis gallbladder empyema 7 xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis.
The case on the left is a patient with liver cirrhosis.
Symptoms of acute cholecystitis may include.
Liver cirrhosis hepatitis and congestive right heart failure are relatively frequent causes.
Postprandial physiological state pseudothickening gallbladder overall decompressed gallbladder overall.
Diffuse thickening of the gallbladder wall can occur in a number of situations.
Fever and possibly chills.