cholecystitis

Acalculi cholecystitis (cholecystitis not caused by gallstones) is rarely treated with surgery, it is usually just antibiotics.

Biliary - Assuming you mean cholecystitis and gross bil dil Yes, this.

But in any case, if you're going vegan for fear of cholecystitis, be aware it may actually have the reverse outcome!

Every one of my siblings and my mother have suffered for years without any of the typically significant acute symptoms of cholecystitis.

This incidence is the same as for appendicitis (10%) and cholecystitis (12%), yet prophylactic appendectomies and cholecystectomies are not the standard of care.

Ended up getting acute cholecystitis and a dead gallbladder plus sepsis after.

Cholecystectomies are indicated in cholecystitis, gallbladder tumours and gallbladder perforations (rare).

I can't remember the exact reference here, but I remember a research paper which showed that veganism is associated with an increased risk of cholecystitis.

I was one of those stupid men who was immobilized with pain from acute cholecystitis, I went to the ER, and they still did it laparoscopically.

If someone has an episode of Cholecystitis then the evidence clearly shows that the best thing for the patient is to have it taken out, because they're highly predisposed to get recurrent episodes which, despite being very painful and an acute danger to life, also leads to significant inflammation and scarring which makes eventually removing it down the line carry a higher burden of morbidity.

The above link is to r/DailyHarvest where multiple users recount their stories of having abdominal pain, elevated liver examinations, being hospitalized and in some cases having their gallbladders removed as the presumptive cause was cholecystitis in some patients.

When I then started talking about Murphy's sign, cholecystitis, why this lead me to think gall stones - they responded with a complete shut-down, get out of my surgery, type affair.

Medicare data does not capture that at all - it only captures the categorical, "surgery type." e.g., someone has a run of the mill cholecystitis that needs to come out.

For example, "Gall bladder: Unremarkable" or "Gallbladder: Cholecystitis without evidence of cholecystitis" or "Gallbladder: Dependent sludge." There are around 15 such organs (liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, adrenal glands, kidneys, etc.).