Table 1.

Factors potentially associated with acute acalculous cholecystitis (Review of Barie and Fischer¹⁹)

Risk factor	Reference nos.
Surgery
Heart operation	14, 16–18
Heart transplantation	20–23
Aortic aneurysm	11–13
Trauma
Burn
Diabetes	32–34
Abdominal angitis	14, 30
Spreading of malignant tumor involving the hepatic hilus	27
Congestive heart failure, hypotension caused by hemorrhagic shock and after cardiac arrest	31
Iatrogenic
Interleukin 2 therapy, lymphokine-activated killer cell therapy	34
Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage	40
After bone marrow transplantation	35
Spread of infection from other sites
Systemic candida infection	36
Leptospirosis	37
Tuberculosis
Salmonella infection of the bile duct	38–39
AIDS	41–42
Closure of entrahepatic bile ducts due to rare cause
Bloody bile
Echinococcosis cyst