Abstract
Acute cholecystitis needs to be rapidly diagnosed and treated correctly. The classic patient characteristics were obese, increasing age, and being female. In a few cases, cholecystitis can occured in an atypical patient, such as in young age. Here, we report a 25-year-old obese female patient that came with right upper abdominal pain which was associated with nausea and vomiting. From imaging studies, we found that she had distended gallbladder with multiple stones. Open cholecystectomy was done and patient did well postoperatively. Acute cholecystitis had to be suspected in all age, especially in patient with another risk factor like obesity in our case.
 Keywords: acute cholecystitis, gallstone, cholecystectomy
Highlights
Despite wide availability of diagnostic tool such as abdominal ultrasound and wide range of empirical antibiotics, acute cholecystitis still represents the second source of complicated intra-abdominal infection (18.5%).[1]
We report a 25-year-old obese female patient that came with right upper abdominal pain which was associated with nausea and vomiting
Acute cholecystitis had to be suspected in all age, especially in patient with another risk factor like obesity in our case
Summary
Despite wide availability of diagnostic tool such as abdominal ultrasound and wide range of empirical antibiotics, acute cholecystitis still represents the second source of complicated intra-abdominal infection (18.5%).[1]. The classic patient characteristics were obese, increasing age, and being female. Cholecystitis can occured in an atypical patient, such as in young age. We report a 25-year-old obese female patient that came with right upper abdominal pain which was associated with nausea and vomiting.
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