Abstract
We present a case of cholecystitis in a pregnant woman who was safely delivered a baby with percutaneous transhepatic aspiration of the gallbladder. The patient was a 40-year-old woman in the 31st week of gestation, and a para. She was seen at the emergency clinic in our hospital because of abdominal pain and was found having cholecystitis. She was treated by percutaneous transhepatic aspiration of the gallbladder, followed by conservative treatment with fasting and high calorie transfusion. Then the patient was induced to deliver at the 37th week of gestation with resultant transvaginal delivery. The postpartum clinical course was uneventful for both the mother and her infant. Laparoscopy-assisted cholecystectomy was performed one week after her delivery, and she was discharged very much improved.
Since different therapeutic methods are employed depending on different gestation period and conditions of the mother and her fatus or fatuses, the case is reported together with some bibliographical comments.
