“…Patient symptom relief has been marginal, with at best 40% experiencing symptom relief following cholecystectomy. 4,5 More recently, authors have proposed that acute acalculous cholecystitis may be a systemic disease, explaining why cholecystectomy does not relieve symptoms in most sufferers. 6,7 Figure 1 Chronic acalculous cholecystitis with simultaneous upper GI inflammation.…”