Abstract
Background :The clinical picture of acute acalculous
cholecystitis can be observed in a wide range from mild lesions to a
degree threatening the patient’s life due to serious complications.In
this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between patients
with acalculous cholecystitis and diabetes mellitus (DM) that has
serious complications.
Methods: The demographic varibles of patients such as
age, gender along with blood tests, were gathered from 110 patients were
gathered. The acalculus
cholecystitis patients were divided into two groups of DM (DM+) and non
DM (DM-) acalculus cholecystitis patients. Descriptive statistics for
numerical variables were presented as mean, standard deviation, median,
min-max values. Non-parametric test procedures were conducted for on
non-normally distributed data. In this context, the non-parametric
alternative of the independent sample t-test, the Mann-Whitney U test,
was used to determine the the difference between means of each group.
Perason correlation analysis was used to test the correlation between
continuous variables and chi-square analysis was performed to evaluate
the relationship between categorical data.
Results: The overall analyses revealed that there was a
positive correlation between CRP and AST, CRP and ALT, CRP and GGT, ALT
and GGT in DM+ patients. The results also indicated that gender is not a
significant factor for the relationship between DM and acalculous
cholecystitis.
Conclusions: It can be said that advanced age and the
presence of DM increase the risk of acalculous cholecystitis and blood
parameters used to show the presence of infection. Furthermore,
deterioration in liver function tests increases more in DM patients.
Keywords : Acalculous Cholecystitis, Blood Tests, Chronic
Diseases, Diabetes Mellitus, Inflammation