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.
Jaundice yellowing of the skin or eyes dark urine and.
You may feel this discomfort in the center of the upper abdomen just below the breastbone or in the upper right portion of the abdomen.
The case on the left is a patient with liver cirrhosis.
Fever and possibly chills.
For the rest hypoalbuminemia is a major culprit in gallbladder wall thickening.
Pseudothickening caused by the normal postprandial state of the contracted gallbladder is also extremely common 5.
Thickening of the gallbladder wall is always abnormal although the significance of the thickening is highly dependent upon the underlying disease process.
Symptoms of acute cholecystitis may include.
Liver cirrhosis hepatitis and congestive right heart failure are relatively frequent causes.
Gallbladder wall thickening can be caused by inflammatory benign and malignant etiologies.
Postprandial physiological state pseudothickening gallbladder overall decompressed gallbladder overall.
Other speculated mechanisms of gallbladder wall thickening in the disease states above are increased portal venous pressure and generalized edema.
Cholecystitis acute cholecystitis chronic cholecystitis gallbladder empyema 7 xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis.