Background: Gallstone disease (GSD) and its complications are major global public health issues, and it remains a common cause of surgical intervention, contributing substantially to health care costs. This study is to estimate the risk of diabetes and life style risk factors responsible for cholelithiasis (gallstone). Materials & Methods: This was a case control study, 137 cases were recruited...

abstract gallstone ileus is a rare complication of cholelithiasis found in less than 0.5% of patients. it is an uncommon cause of small bowel obstruction, accounting for 1% to 3% of all mechanical bowel obstructions and over 25% of nonstrangulated bowel obstructions in patients older than 65 years with a female predominance. we report a 60-year-old woman who was referred to our hospital because...

Introduction: Sickle cell disease (SCD) causes chronic hemolysis which is a risk factor for cholelithiasis. Its development may lead to severe and life-threatening complications. Objective: Determine the prevalence of cholelithiasis, the conditions of diagnosis and related factors. Materials and Method: We retrospectively reviewed records of 110 patients with sickle cell disease followed up in ...

Background: Gallstone disease or cholelithiasis, is one of the most common surgical problems worldwide. The assessment of gallbladder kinetics in patients with cholelithiasis as well as in patients with high risk for cholelithiasis could play a significant role in better management and is recommended as a routine workup of biliary system in these patients. Objectives: This study was carried out...

Introduction: Cholelithiasis is the most common disease in biliary tract. Several risk factors have been known as of cholelithiasis, such obesity and female gender. Meanwhile, only few studies evaluate correlation between clinical characteristics stone type cholelithiasis. The study aims to cholelithiasis patients at Universitas Sumatera Utara Hospital.Method: design was cross sectional. sample...

OBJECTIVE: To report a case of asymptomatic cholelithiasis in a premature young infant, presenting literature review. METHODS: The authors describe a case of asymptomatic cholelithiasis, incidentally diagnosed during a routine ultrasonographic exam, with spontaneous resolution. Literature review has been done from Medline and Lilacs, with quotations from articles of the last 45 years. RESULTS: ...

a case o f intrahepatic stone and its t r eat ment i s present e d . the t ype s o f i ntrahepatic s tones , t h e etiological f act o r , t he ways of di agno s is and t reatment a re b eing discussed. the disease is common in far eastern c ountri es a nd asian are a, with c lonorchi s s i nens is inf estation, but s peci ally in iran when the s tones i s a lone in intrahepatic ducts without e...

PURPOSE The power of correlation was assessed between chosen risk factors of cholelithiasis in order to establish the ranking of these factors in Podlasie inhabitants. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study involved 169 patients hospitalized due for cholelithiasis (study group) and 202 patients without cholelithiasis (control group). Previous exposure of patients of both groups to the chosen risk fac...

BACKGROUND Cholelithiasis is an important cause of morbidity in the world and it varies significantly depending on the region of study. OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of cholelithiasis in Buenos Aires. MATERIAL AND METHODS This is a cross-sectional, descriptive, observational study performed in a public hospital with tertiary care in Gastrointestinal Surgery. From July 2010 to December ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between cholelithiasis and developing sialolithiasis using a population-based coverage database. METHODS The data for this study were sourced from the Taiwan Longitudinal Health Insurance Database. We included 745 subjects with sialolithiasis as cases and 3725 sex-matched and age-matched subjects without sialolithiasis as co...