Table 2.

Incidence of postoperative acute cholecystitis

Author	Year of report	Characteristics	No. of cases	Incidence (%)
Ouriel12	1984	Aneurysm repair	703	1.1
Scher11	1986	Aortic aneurysm repair, elective	352	1.0
		Aortic aneurysm repair, emergency	22	13.6
Hagino13	1997	Aortic aneurysm repair	996	1.0
Barie15	1993	Cardiac surgery	31710	0.12
Sessions16	1993	Cardiac surgery	6393	0.34
Leitman14	1987	Cardiac surgery	6452	0.94
Savino17	1985	Cardiac surgery	2100	0.24
Welling18	1986	Cardiac surgery	1596
Steed20	1985	Cardiac transplantation	142	0.7
Merrell21	1989	Cardiac transplantation	178	2.2
Rakhit22	2002	Pediatric cardiac transplantation	105	5.7
Takahashi43	1990	Gastrectomy	1096	0.6
Saito44	1997	Cardiac surgerya	1015	0.6
Ishikawa45	1997	Cardiovascular surgery	321	1.2

Note: Prepared mainly based on the review by Barie and Fischer,19 including acalculous cholecystitis

^a Study included only acalculous acute cholecystitis