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Crohnʼs Disease of the Gallbladder
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 1993In a 57-year-old woman, Crohn's disease involving the gallbladder and duodenum caused biliary tract obstruction and necessitated surgery. The patient's symptoms did not improve postoperatively until corticosteroids provided rapid resolution. Inflammatory bowel disease often involves the hepatobiliary tree, yet the gallbladder is rarely involved ...
Rosalind U. van Stolk +3 more
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Intervention for gallbladder disease
Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, 1990Intervention in the gallbladder includes therapy for both acute and chronic gallbladder disease. Although drainage for acute cholecystitis has been described by several investigators, the future seems to be in removal of calculi in symptomatic patients without acute cholecystitis.
Franklin J. Miller, Steven C. Rose
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GALLBLADDER DISEASE IN THE AGED [PDF]
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1956 • Gallbladder disease, sometimes of many year's standing, frequently necessitates surgery in older people. In a series of 300 operations for gallbladder disease, in which there have been no deaths, 67 have been in patients 60 years of age and over; this included 15 patients over 70. Stones were found in 64 of the 67 patients.
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Gallbladder Disease in Childhood
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1984Seventy-seven children less than 19 years old underwent cholecystectomy during a 12-year period at UCLA Medical Center. Forty-four had calculous cholecystitis; five had acalculous cholecystitis; and 28 underwent cholecystectomy with other major biliary surgery.
Eric W. Fonkalsrud, Howard Takiff
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Gallbladder Disease Terminology
Pediatrics, 1985To the Editor.— Diseases of the gallbladder and bile ducts, while uncommon among infants and children, still occur with sufficient frequency that they must be remembered by all pediatric clinicians. One of the problems in this regard is that of terminology.
G B, Logan, J L, Thistle
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Gallbladder disease in cystic fibrosis [PDF]
American Journal of Roentgenology, 1977 In 84 consecutive patients with cystic fibrosis, oral cholecystography was abnormal in 39 (46.4%). The incidence of abnormal cholecystograms increased with patient age. The 26 patients with a nonvisualized gallbladder following double-dosage oral cholecystography were evaluated with intravenous cholangiography; 19 (70.3%) of these were abnormal.
P R L'Heureux +3 more
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Diagnosing Gallbladder Disease
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1989Excerpt To the Editor:In its recent position paper ( 1 ) on diagnosing gallbladder disease, the Health and Policy Committee of the American College of Physicians recommended use of ultrasonographic...
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Steatocholecystitis and Fatty Gallbladder Disease [PDF]
Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 2008 Obesity has become an epidemic worldwide. It is accompanied by a multitude of medical complications including metabolic syndrome. Obesity may lead to fatty infiltration of multiple internal organs including liver, heart, kidney, and pancreas, causing organ dysfunctions. Fatty infiltration leads to chronic inflammation and tissue damage.
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Ultrasound in the Investigation of Gallbladder Disease
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1978CONVENTIONAL oral cholecystography with iopanoic acid has reached a high degree of diagnostic accuracy and is currently the standard mode of evaluation of gallbladder disease. 1 However, it is of limited applicability in several situations: The acutely ill patient. The study, when using iopanoic acid may take 14 to 48 hours to complete.
Roger C. Sanders, Neil B. Kappelman
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Gallbladder Hypokinesia in Crohn’s Disease
Digestion, 1997For the purpose of shedding some light upon the possible mechanisms involved in gallstone formation in patients with Crohn's disease, we have investigated gallbladder emptying by means of ultrasonography in two groups of subjects: controls (n = 40) and Crohn's disease (n = 30).
Antônio Atílio Laudanna +5 more
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