Acalculous Acute Cholecystitis in Previously Healthy Children: General Overview and Analysis of Pediatric Infectious Cases

Table 1

Case reports of pediatric AAC in previously healthy children since 2000.

Authors (year)	Age	Sex	Etiology	Symptoms	Reference
Ashley et al. (2000)	4	M	B. melitensis	RUQ pain, fever, constipation, anorexia	[24]
Ciftci et al. (2001)	7	M	HAV	Abdominal pain, fever, jaundice	[25]
Croteau et al. (2001)	2	M	N.A.	Abdominal pain, fever, anorexia	[26]
Lo et al. (2002)	5	M	Salmonella spp. (group D)	Abdominal pain, fever, vomiting, diarrhoea	[27]
Batra et al. (2003)	12	M	S. aureus	RUQ pain, fever, jaundice, maculopapular rash	[28]
Garel et al. (2003)	4	M	N.A.	Abdominal pain, fever, vomiting, diarrhoea	[29]
Saha et al. (2005)	7	F	P. falciparum	RUQ pain, fever	[30]
Axelrod and Karakas (2007)	3	F	S. typhi	Abdominal pain, fever, vomiting	[31]
Kuttiat and Kohli (2007)	8 and 9	Both M	P. falciparum and P. vivax	RUQ pain, fever, vomiting (P. vivax)	[32]
Lagona et al. (2007)	4	F	EBV	RUQ pain, fever, jaundice, vomiting, anorexia	[33]
Anthoine-Milhomme et al. (2007)	7	F	Plasmodium spp.	Abdominal pain, fever, diarrhoea, jaundice	[34]
Prassouli et al. (2007)	13	F	EBV	Abdominal pain, fever, vomiting, jaundice	[35]
Gora-Gebka et al. (2008)	9 and 4	Both F	EBV + CMV and EBV	RUQ pain, fever, jaundice, enlargement of liver and spleen	[36]
Kumar et al. (2008)	3	F	P. falciparum	Abdominal pain, fever, vomiting	[37]
Attilakos et al. (2009)	5	M	EBV	Fever, jaundice, enlargement of liver and spleen	[38]
Suresh et al. (2009)	2	F	HAV	Abdominal pain, fever, vomiting	[39]
de Souza et al. (2009)	16	M	HAV	Abdominal pain, fever, vomiting	[40]
Arroud et al. (2009)	11	M	HAV	Abdominal pain, fever, vomiting, jaundice	[41]
Herek et al. (2011)	9	M	HAV	Abdominal pain, fever, vomiting, jaundice	[42]
Newcombe et al. (2013)	9	M	C. burnetii	N.A.	[43]
Poddighe et al. (2014)	7	F	EBV	RUQ, fever, vomiting, jaundice, liver enlargement	[11]
Kim et al. (2014)	10	F	EBV	RUQ pain, fever, cervical lymphadenopathy	[44]
Fretzayas et al. (2014)	11 and 12	Both F	EBV	Abdominal pain, fever, jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly	[45]
Alkoury et al. (2015)	15	F	EBV	Abdominal pain, fever, vomiting	[46]
Pawlowska-Kamieniak et al. (2015)	17	F	EBV	RUQ pain, fever, anorexia	[47]