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The Lancet, 2006
With a prevalence of 10-15% in adults in Europe and the USA, gallstones are the most common digestive disease needing admission to hospital in the West. The interplay between interprandial and postprandial physiological responses to endogenous and dietary lipids underscores the importance of coordinated hepatobiliary and gastrointestinal functions to ...
PORTINCASA, Piero +2 more
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With a prevalence of 10-15% in adults in Europe and the USA, gallstones are the most common digestive disease needing admission to hospital in the West. The interplay between interprandial and postprandial physiological responses to endogenous and dietary lipids underscores the importance of coordinated hepatobiliary and gastrointestinal functions to ...
PORTINCASA, Piero +2 more
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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 ...
J, Manny +3 more
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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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Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, 1983
Black and brown pigment gallstones are morphologically, compositionally, and clinically distinct. Black stones form primarily in the gallbladder in sterile bile and are associated with advanced age, chronic hemolysis, alcoholism, cirrhosis, pancreatitis, and total parenteral nutrition.
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Black and brown pigment gallstones are morphologically, compositionally, and clinically distinct. Black stones form primarily in the gallbladder in sterile bile and are associated with advanced age, chronic hemolysis, alcoholism, cirrhosis, pancreatitis, and total parenteral nutrition.
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Manifestations of gallstone disease
Postgraduate Medicine, 1979In some patients, gallstones are asymptomatic, lying dormant in the gallbladder or wedged in the cystic duct. In others, stones cause specific symptoms of gallbladder disease, such as biliary colic, acute cholecystitis, or cholangitis. Symptoms of flatulent dyspepsia are not markers of gallstone disease, since they occur equally in those with and ...
L, Tucker, T N, Tangedahl
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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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2018
Gallstone disease is common with clinical presentations including biliary colic, cholecystitis, and obstructive jaundice. Acute cholangitis and pancreatitis are other complications. Ultrasound scan and MRCP as well as endoscopic ultrasound are investigation modalities.
Abdullah Jibawi +2 more
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Gallstone disease is common with clinical presentations including biliary colic, cholecystitis, and obstructive jaundice. Acute cholangitis and pancreatitis are other complications. Ultrasound scan and MRCP as well as endoscopic ultrasound are investigation modalities.
Abdullah Jibawi +2 more
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