Society guideline links: Cholecystitis and other gallbladder disorders

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Gallbladder surgery".)

International

●World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES): Updated guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute calculus cholecystitis (2020)

●WSES and Italian Surgical Society for Elderly (SICG): Guidelines on acute calculous cholecystitis in elderly population (2017)

United States

●Choosing Wisely: Avoid other imaging tests apart from ultrasound for the initial evaluation of patients with suspected gallstone disease (2018, updated 2022)

●Choosing Wisely: Don't discharge patients presenting emergently with acute cholecystitis without first offering laparoscopic cholecystectomy (2018, updated 2022)

●Choosing Wisely: Don't routinely remove the gallbladder unless clinically indicated (2015)

●American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE): The role of endoscopy in the management of choledocholithiasis (2011)

Europe

●European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology (ESGAR), European Association for Endoscopic Surgery and other Interventional Techniques (EAES), International Society of Digestive Surgery – European Federation (EFISDS) and European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE): Joint guidelines on management and follow-up of gallbladder polyps (2017)

●European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL): Clinical practice guidelines on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of gallstones (2016)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance on percutaneous insertion of a cystic duct stent after cholecystostomy for acute calculous cholecystitis (2022)

●NICE: Clinical guideline on gallstone disease – Diagnosis and management (2014)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy (2014)

Japan

●[In English] Japanese Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery (JSHBPS): Tokyo guidelines – Flowchart for the management of acute cholecystitis (2018)

●[In English] JSHBPS: Tokyo guidelines – Management bundles for acute cholangitis and cholecystitis (2018)

●[In English] JSHBPS: Tokyo guidelines – Management strategies for gallbladder drainage in patients with acute cholecystitis (with videos) (2018)

●[In Japanese] Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (JSGE): Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for cholelithiasis, 2nd edition (2016)