The study excluded patients with acute cholecystitis, pancreatitis, choledocholithiasis, hematologic disorders, or a need for emergent procedures. The children were a median 15 years old ...

Your gallbladder is located just underneath your liver and releases fat-digesting bile into the duodenum when you eat. There ...

Methods—One hundred and forty nine patients who had EST and clearance of the bile duct for choledocholithiasis were selected. All patients were confirmed to have complete EST by sphincter of Oddi ...

Usually, a cholecystectomy (removal of the gallbladder) is the best treatment. Choledocholithiasis: This occurs when gallstones become displaced to the common bile duct rather than to the gallbladder.

The remaining causes included choledocholithiasis (n=8) and autoimmune hepatitis (n=3). No cause was identified for 8 patients. Of these, none had HEV IgM checked. 35.7% (n=65) died during this ...

Six months previously, the patient had presented with right upper quadrant pain and jaundice and been treated for choledocholithiasis by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and ...