BACKGROUND To assess hepatobiliary (HB) scans for predicting recurrent symptoms in nonoperated patients with mild or vague symptomatic gallstones. METHODS Data of 170 patients with symptomatic gallstone and who had not undergone cholecystectomy were retrospectively enrolled. These patients were divided into two groups according to whether or not operations were performed due to recurrent symp...

BACKGROUND Sodium-bicarbonated mineral waters are reported to have beneficial digestive and hypocholesterolaemic properties. The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of consumption of a sodium-bicarbonated mineral water (BW) with or without a meal, compared to a low mineral content water as the control water (CW), on postprandial serum triacylglycerols (TAG), cholecystokinin (CCK) an...

UNLABELLED Dynamic cholescintigraphy (DCG) is a valid technique for evaluating gallbladder emptying. Cholecystokinin (CCK) as a slow infusion is recommended as a contraction stimulus. The normal ejection fraction (EF) has been shown to be reproducible, although the reproducibility of abnormal results has not been investigated. The aims of the present study were to standardize the CCK administra...

OBJECTIVE To study the clinical results of surgical management in patients with right upper quadrant pain, a positive hepatobiliary iminodiacetic acid (HIDA) scan result, and no gallstones. DATA SOURCES Health care databases and gray literature. STUDY SELECTION Each article was scrutinized to determine whether it met inclusion criteria. Only abstracts, full articles, and gray literature tha...