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Beyond Rigler's Triad: Gallstone Ileus in the Absence of a Bilioenteric Fistula. [PDF]

open access: yesCureus
Ochoa LF   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

MANagement of Gallstone disease in the Older patient (MANGO): clinical and quality of life outcomes from a prospective multicentre cohort study. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Surg
Fairclough AE   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Case Report of Bouveret Syndrome. [PDF]

open access: yesCureus
Rentería Fonseca QM   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Risk Factors for Symptomatic Gallstone Disease and Gallstone Formation After Bariatric Surgery

open access: yesObesity Surgery, 2022
Purpose: Patients who undergo bariatric surgery are at risk for developing cholesterol gallstones. We aimed to identify risk factors that are associated with symptomatic gallstone disease and gallstone formation after bariatric surgery.
Sylke Haäl   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Gallstones

Medical Journal of Australia, 1999
Gallstone disease is a common clinical problem that poses particular difficulties for our aging and increasingly obese population. Exciting new research suggests an infectious cause for most cholesterol stones. The keys to managing patients with gallstone disease are recognition of the wide spectrum of clinical disease resulting from gallstones and a ...
W A, Hoogerwerf, R D, Soloway
  +8 more sources

Gallstones

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology, 2001
Gallstones are estimated to affect over 20 million people in the United States. Recent studies have clarified the role of various dietary components in gallstone disease. Also, insulin resistance has been demonstrated to be a risk factor for gallstones.
Lee, SP, Ko, CW
openaire   +4 more sources

A ‘wandering’ gallstone

South African Journal of Surgery, 2012
When all three of the features of Rigler's triad are present on an abdominal radiograph, the cause of a small-bowel obstruction can be identified.
Kuehnast, M, Sewchuran, T, Andronikou, S
openaire   +3 more sources

Complications of Gallstones: The Mirizzi Syndrome, Gallstone Ileus, Gallstone Pancreatitis, Complications of “Lost” Gallstones

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2008
Gallstones cause various problems besides simple biliary colic and choplecystitis. With chronicity of inflammation caused by gallstone obstruction of the cystic duct, the gallbladder may fuse to the extrahepatic biliary tree, causing Mirizzi syndrome, or fistulize into the intestinal tract, causing so-called gallstone ileus.
Jill, Zaliekas, J Lawrence, Munson
openaire   +2 more sources

Dissolution of Gallstones

Digestive Diseases, 2008
Gallstones represent a major health problem in western society. For symptomatic gallstones, cholecystectomy is the gold standard. A considerable number of patients, however, cannot tolerate or are unwilling to undergo surgery and anaesthesia. For these patients, dissolution therapy, administered either systemically (‘oral dissolution’) or directly into
P W, Plaisier   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Obesity and Gallstones

Visceral Medicine, 2021
<b><i>Background:</i></b> The prevalence of obesity has been increasing globally and represents the main risk factor for the development of gallstone disease (GD). <b><i>Summary:</i></b> Excess body weight represents the main cause for the development of GD; nevertheless, there have been described ...
Nela Melissa, Parra-Landazury   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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