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Risk Factors for Symptomatic Gallstone Disease and Gallstone Formation After Bariatric Surgery
Obesity 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.
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Gallstone disease and related risk factors in a large cohort of diabetic patients
Digestive and Liver Disease, 2004 Background and aim. The aim of this study of a large cohort of consecutive patients with diabetes mellitus was to investigate the still controversial questions concerning the prevalence and possible risk factors of gallstone disease in diabetics ...
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Postgraduate Medicine, 1975
Most gallstones are composed largely or entirely of cholesterol. The larger calculi are more often associated with acute cholecystitis than are smaller stones. Factors predisposing to gallstone formation include sex, age, race, child-bearing, and possibly diet and obesity.
M J, Coyne, L J, Schoenfield
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Most gallstones are composed largely or entirely of cholesterol. The larger calculi are more often associated with acute cholecystitis than are smaller stones. Factors predisposing to gallstone formation include sex, age, race, child-bearing, and possibly diet and obesity.
M J, Coyne, L J, Schoenfield
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Archives of Surgery, 1973
Four cases presented unusual clinical manifestations due to biliary stone disease. Hepatomegaly and splenomegaly, weight loss, and fever, accompanied by hepatocellular damage were the presenting manifestations in all of the cases. There was a lack of typical symptomatology of gallstone disease in the history of the patients, though in every case ...
J, Manny +3 more
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Four cases presented unusual clinical manifestations due to biliary stone disease. Hepatomegaly and splenomegaly, weight loss, and fever, accompanied by hepatocellular damage were the presenting manifestations in all of the cases. There was a lack of typical symptomatology of gallstone disease in the history of the patients, though in every case ...
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Seminars in Pediatric Surgery, 2012
Gallstone disease in children is evolving, and for the previous 3 decades, the frequency for surgery has increased greatly. This is in part because of improved diagnostic modalities, but also changing pathology, an increased awareness of emerging comorbidities, such as childhood obesity, and other associated risk factors.
Jan, Svensson, Erica, Makin
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Gallstone disease in children is evolving, and for the previous 3 decades, the frequency for surgery has increased greatly. This is in part because of improved diagnostic modalities, but also changing pathology, an increased awareness of emerging comorbidities, such as childhood obesity, and other associated risk factors.
Jan, Svensson, Erica, Makin
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Gallstones in Gallbladder Diseases
Acta Pathologica Japonica, 1989The correlation between gallbladder stones (gallstones) and various gallbladder diseases was examined. The incidence of gallstones was 47.1% in cases of nonneoplastic epithelial polyp, 48.0% in adenoma, and 59.1% in adenocarcinoma. There was no relation between the incidence of gallstones and sex.
M, Yamamoto, S, Nakajo, E, Tahara
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Identification of gallstone disease
Postgraduate Medicine, 1979Oral cholecystography is the most widely used and accurate method for evaluating the gallbladder. Nonvisualization of the gallbladder on a two-day study is virtually diagnostic of cystic duct obstruction or gallbladder membrane dysfunction. Intravenous cholangiography may be used to confirm cystic duct obstruction but more commonly is used to ...
L, Tucker, J F, Bergstrom
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DeckerMed Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, 2015
Gallstone disease (cholelithiasis), very common in the United States, afflicts around 15% of the adult population and accounts for approximately 1.8 million ambulatory visits per year. Elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy for the removal of gallstones is currently the most commonly performed abdominal operation in the United States, with around 750 ...
A Dokmeci, Mustafa Yakut
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Gallstone disease (cholelithiasis), very common in the United States, afflicts around 15% of the adult population and accounts for approximately 1.8 million ambulatory visits per year. Elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy for the removal of gallstones is currently the most commonly performed abdominal operation in the United States, with around 750 ...
A Dokmeci, Mustafa Yakut
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Gallstones and biliary diseases
Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 2001Gallstones are common in the US and western countries. This article describes the pathogenesis of gallstone formation and the clinical manifestations and current approaches to diagnosis and treatment of the most common clinical conditions caused by gallstones: biliary colic, acute cholecystitis, choledocholithiasis, and acute gallstone pancreatitis ...
A N, Kalloo, S V, Kantsevoy
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2013
Gallstone disease (GSD) is one of the most common biliary tract disorders worldwide. The prevalence, however, varies from 5.9-21.9% in Western society to 3.1-10.7% in Asia. Most gallstones (75%) are silent. Approximately half of symptomatic gallstone carriers experience a second episode of biliary pain within 1 year.
Shih-Chang, Chuang +2 more
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Gallstone disease (GSD) is one of the most common biliary tract disorders worldwide. The prevalence, however, varies from 5.9-21.9% in Western society to 3.1-10.7% in Asia. Most gallstones (75%) are silent. Approximately half of symptomatic gallstone carriers experience a second episode of biliary pain within 1 year.
Shih-Chang, Chuang +2 more
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