Bacteria are often found in high concentrations in brown pigment and less so in cholesterol gallstones. Although it is intriguing to hypothesize that cholesterol stone formation is non-bacterial in nature and principally different from the pathogenesis of "infectious" brown pigment gallstones, it is more likely that significant overlap exists between the two processes. Most gallstones are compo...

BACKGROUND There is increasing evidence that chronic liver disease is one of the risk factors for gallstone disease. A few published studies have documented the link between Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) related chronic liver disease and increased incidence of gallstones but these studies did not exclude subjects with other risk factors like cirrhosis. This study aimed to establish an association bet...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The relationship between Crohn's disease and gallstones is established. However, the prevalence and risk factors for gallstones in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) are not yet well understood. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and risk factors of gallstones in patients with UC. METHODS This study was a retrospective single center study. A total of 87 pa...

Gallstones are among common complaints of human societies. Its prevalence has been estimated about 10% in western societies. As operational manipulation is still the method of choice in symptomatic gallstones, post-operative side effects and complaints, like remained gallstone in common bile duct, are studied. In a retrospective study we have reviewed the files of the patients hospitalized in S...

Complications from lost gallstones after cholecystectomy are rare but varied from simple perihepatic abscess to empyema and expectoration of gallstones. Gallstone complications have been reported in nearly every organ system, although reports of malignant masquerade of retained gallstones are few. We present the case of an 87-year-old woman with a flank soft tissue tumor 4 years after laparosco...

Purpose: Several etiologies come to the fore in gallstones' formation, especially chemical content of bile and impaired motility gallbladder. This study aims reveal connections by evaluating radiological images laboratory data patients who underwent MRCP for any reason our center. Material Methods: The with a pre-diagnosis cholestasis single center 2019-2020 ethics committee's approval were ret...

Cholecystolithiasis is a common disease, making cholecystectomy a commonly performed surgical procedure. The gross appearance of gallstones differs from case to case. To classify gallstones on the basis of their structure, we randomly collected gallstones from 100 (64 of them women) of 3,289 patients who underwent cholecystectomy at our hospital. The stones were grossly classified into five maj...

The frequency of gallstones in cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic patients at necropsy has been determined from a retrospective survey of postmortem records over 15 years. The frequency of gallstones was found to be 29.4% in the cirrhotic group and 12.8% in the non-cirrhotic population. Whereas gallstones were twice as frequent in females than males in the general population the sex difference disappe...