Sigmoid colon gallstone ileus is a mechanical large bowel obstruction caused by a biliary stone which migrates into the colon through a cholecysto-enteric fistula and gets impacted in the sigma. It is a very rare complication of gallbladder calculosis in the general population, but its frequency increases with age, with elderly people being the most frequently affected. Diagnosis is often delay...

The incidence of gallstones is 10-15%, making it one the most common causes surgical admissions. number admissions and operations for gallstone disease increasing. Commonly are formed in gallbladder but can also develop biliary tree. Commonly, made cholesterol. Even though exact cause supersaturation bile not known, there multiple associate factors formation. Most patients with never experience...

An 85-year-old woman was an outpatient treated at Tokyo Rosai Hospital for cirrhosis caused by hepatitis B. She had previously been diagnosed as having common bile duct stones, for which she underwent endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). However, as stone removal was unsuccessful, a plastic stent was placed after endoscopic sphincterotomy. In October 2012, the stent was replac...

Chest pain has been reported as a cardinal clinical feature among the patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). However, several patients exhibit the atypical or no symptom on initial evaluation. Atypical symptom was defined as the absence of chest pain before or during admission, and may have included gastrointestinal or respiratory symptoms such as dyspnea, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal ...

CONTEXT Current management of gallstone pancreatitis in a university hospital. OBJECTIVE Comparison of current management of gallstone pancreatitis with recommendations in national guidelines. SETTING Tertiary care centre in Scotland. SUBJECTS One-hundred consecutive patients admitted with gallstone pancreatitis. METHODS All patients that presented with gallstone pancreatitis over a 4-y...

introduction: despite presence of a body of evidence in support of high accuracy of cholecystokinin cholescintigraphy (cck-cs) , for diagnosis of chronic cholecystitis(cc) , some authors have claimed that  gallbladder ejection fraction (gbef)  has poor predictive diagnostic values. the purpose of this study was to determine if there is any difference in gbef between normal individuals and patie...

Determining the zinc level in children's blood plasma is an urgent problem, given its possible participation formation of cholelithiasis.Aim. To investigate and clinical course gallstone disease (GSD) children.Methods. 69 children aged 10-17 years 25 without biliary tract pathology were selected by method simple randomization. Verification diagnosis was carried out applying dynamic ultrasound e...

AIM To explore the methods for achieving pain relief in patients with atypical trigeminal neuralgia (TN) using microvascular decompression (MVD). STUDY DESIGN AND SETTINGS Retrospective study of 26 patients treated during the years 2000 to 2004. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-six patients in whom vascular compression of the trigeminal nerve was identified by high definition magnetic resonance...