Gallstones without Symptoms and Symptoms without Gallstones

Cholecystitis Without Gallstones

Cholecystectomy for Biliary Colic Without Gallstones

(1990) Cholecystectomy provides long-term symptom relief in patients with acalculous gallbladders. Elective cholecystectomy was performed in 60 patients with biliary colic and acaiculous gallbladders during a 5-year period. Gallbladder wall disease was significantly more common (p < 0.01) in patients with acalculous gallbladders than in a similar symptomatic group with calculous gallbladders. T...

Abdominal symptoms: do they predict gallstones? A systematic review.

BACKGROUND Our objective was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of abdominal symptoms in gallstones in studies using ultrasonography or oral cholecystography as the reference standard and to assess the extent to which variability in diagnostic accuracy is explained by patient selection and other characteristics of study design. METHODS A Medline search (1966-1998) was conducted in combinatio...

Biliary Proteins in Patients with and without Gallstones

BACKGROUND Nucleation from supersaturated bile of calcium salts of cholesterol and bilirubinate is essential in the formation of gallstone. Nucleation requires gallbladder mucin and its main component, glycoprotein, may contribute to gallstone formation by providing a nidus or matrix for precipitation of lipid components. However, biliary protein patterns of patients with gallstones have not be...

Chronic ulcerative jejunitis without symptoms.

A patient is presented who, in addition to subtotal villous atrophy, had superficial ulcers of the jejunum, as well as a wide band of granulation tissue deep to the crypts suggesting recurrent past ulceration. In spite of these changes she had no intestinal symptoms at the time of her presentation with reflux oesophagitis, and her only nutritional abnormality was a mild folate deficiency. Withd...