Table 4.

Characteristics of patients admitted with a cardiac condition who had coexisting cholecystitis or developed it during hospitalization (group 2)

Case no.	#06	#07	#08	#09	#10	#11	#12	#13	#14	#15	#16
Symptoms	Dyspnea on effort	Chest/back pain	Chest pain, fever	Abdominal pain	Chest/back pain	Clinically silent	Dyspnea on effort	Palpitation	(Post EVAR)	Dyspnea on effort	Dyspnea, fever
Initial diagnosis	Acute myocardial infarction	Acute aortic dissection (type B)	Chronic aortic dissection (type B)	Acute aortic dissection (type B)	Acute aortic dissection (type A)	Complete AV block	Congestive heart failure	Paroxysmal Af for ablation	Coronary artery disease	Congestive heart failure	Congestive heart failure, Af
Cardiovascular past histories	Post CABG	Paroxysmal Af	None	None	None	None	Atrial flutter	Myocardial infarction	Ileac artery aneurysm	Myocardial infarction	Sick sinus syndrome
Diagnosis interval, day	13	9	5	8	20	21	0	4	0	24	3
Cholelithiasis	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No
Choledocholithiasis	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Treatment	Endoscopic retrograde gallbladder drainage	Percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage	Laparoscopic cholecystectomy	Laparoscopic cholecystectomy	Cholecystectomy	Cholecystectomy	Cholecystectomy	Endoscopic retrograde biliary drainage	Cholecystectomy	Endoscopic biliary stenting	Antibiotics

Af atrial fibrillation, AV atrioventricular