Background The study was designed to assess the prevalence of asymptomatic gallstone disease in North-East part of Bangladesh. Materials and methods Randomly selected asymptomatic persons, unknown to have gallstone disease, from both rural and urban areas were enrolled. They were subjected to abdominal ultrasonography and findings were recorded in a data sheet. Results Total 1,019 persons (...

Objectives: To study the etiology and outcome of pregnancy with pancreatitis. Methods: The study was conducted in the department of Gynecology & Obstetrics along with School of Digestive & Liver Diseases (SDLD), IPGME & R, Kolkata between March 2006 to February 2009. We have analyzed 29 cases of acute pancreatitis in pregnancy over a period of 3 years. Maternal age, gravida/ parity, gestational...

Colonic gallstone ileus in an uncommon mechanical bowel obstruction caused by intraluminal impaction of one or more gallstones. The surgical management of gallstone ileus is complex and is potentially of high risk. There have been reports of gallstone extractions using various endoscopic modalities to relieve the obstruction. In this report we present the technique employed to successfully perf...

Figure 1a. Contrast enhanced CT demonstrating a small calcified gallstone (arrow) within the gallbladder. 1b+c. Contrast enhanced CT two weeks later. b. A dilated gallbladder with thickened wall, absence of stone, and intrahepatic bile duct dilatation (arrow). 1c. The migrated gallstone (arrow) is seen in the distal CBD. 1d. ERCP demonstrating a filling defect in the distal CBD. 1e. The extract...

Gallstone ileus is an uncommon cause of small bowel obstruction, mainly affecting elderly patients. The most common cause is impaction of a stone in the ileum after passing through a biliary-enteric fistula (1). Jejunal perforation is a rare complication of gallstone ileus. We present a case of jejunal diverticular perforation secondary to gallstone ileus, produced by diverticulum wall necrosis...

Abstract Gallstone ileus is an uncommon presentation in patients with acute abdomen. Its diagnosis and treatment are often delayed due to its nonspecific clinical presentation. Presence of gallstone ileum can be difficult detect on computed tomography (CT) as mostly they lucent. We report the case a 66-year-old man 1-day history vomiting abdominal bloating. Initial CT could not identify obstruc...

BACKGROUND In a previous study, we found that gallstones were a common occurrence in the high altitude villages of the Peruvian Andes. AIMS To determine if high altitude (> or = 1500 m) is a contributing risk factor for gallstone disease. METHODS We conducted a cross sectional study in a periurban community in Lima, Peru, and compared the prevalence of gallstone disease between coastal nati...

BACKGROUND In this study, we evaluated the association between these polymorphisms and gallstone disease using meta-analysis and compared the hepatic ABCG5/G8 mRNA expression and biliary lipids composition in patients with different genotypes of T400K and Y54C. METHODS Data were analyzed using the Stata/SE 11.0 software and a random- effects model was applied irrespective of between-study het...

Cholecystolithiasis is a common disease, and gallbladder dysmotility is considered as a pivotal pathogenesis. Interstitial cells of Cajal (ICCs) serve as pacemakers and mediators of neuromuscular transmission for gastrointestinal motility. Reduction of ICCs has been reported in gallstone diseases. However, there are no reasonable mechanisms for the cholecystolithiasis-associated loss of ICCs in...

We have adopted the clinical concept of gallstone hepatitis indicated by marked serum transaminase elevation due to an acute inflammatory liver cell necrosis in the early stages of gallstone impaction in the bile duct as clinical and biochemical criteria for identifying high-risk patients for acute cholangitis or bile duct stones causing symptoms (symptomatic bile duct stones, SBDS). One hundre...