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Metabolic syndrome among patients with gallstone disease a strong risk factor for postoperative wound infection after cholecystectomy, a study from northeast India
... Three components of metabolic syndrome were present in 27% of cases. All 5 components were present in 2% of cases. None of the components were associated in 31% of patients with gallstone disease. Only one ...
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Comorbidity of the Metabolic Syndrome: Hyperuricemia, Gallstone Disease, Hormonal Disorders
... and gallstone disease, hyperuricemia, hormonal disorders and point out the most relevant picture for ...and gallstone disease. No association between gallstone disease and ...
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Epidemiology of Gallstone Disease among Pregnant women in Egypt: Multicenter Study
... against gallstone occurrence by speeding intestinal transit and reducing the generation of secondary bile acids such as deoxycholate, which has been associated with increased cholesterol saturation of the bile ...
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Biliary lipid secretion in cholesterol gallstone disease The effect of cholecystectomy and obesity
... Cholesterol gallstone disease is initiated in a liver which produces abnormal bile with excess cholesterol relative to bile salts and ...hepatobiliary disease and 6 patients with ...
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Epidemiology and Risk Factor of the Gallstone Disease in a Southern Tropical Country
... 2]. Gallstone is a potentially serious pathology by its numerous complications, but especially, studies had shown the association between the carcinoma of gall bladder and the gallstones [3, ...for ...
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Role of the ABCG8 19H risk allele in cholesterol absorption and gallstone disease
... in gallstone carriers but chol- esterol synthesis was not significantly different between individuals with gallstones and ...between gallstone carriers and controls. Third, in the cohort of gallstone ...
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Immunosuppressants and new onset gallstone disease in patients having undergone renal transplantation
... Patients and methods: Renal transplantation (RT) recipients were identified from the National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan during January 1998–December 2012. In total, 2,630 adult patients, who had ...
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Comparative study of morbidity of laparoscopic versus open cholecystectomy in complicated gallstone disease
... complicated gallstone disease on the basis of history, clinical examination and ...stone disease included cases of acute cholecysti- tis with phlegm, chronic cholecystitis with muco- cele, empyema ...
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Nationwide epidemiological study of severe gallstone disease in Taiwan
... all gallstone-related complications and ...severe gallstone disease were identified by ICD-9-CM ...severe gallstone disease and related ...to gallstone location and composition ...
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Clinical predictors of incident gallstone disease in a Chinese population in Taipei, Taiwan
... The estimated incidence of GSD in this study was higher in females compared with males, and increased as age increased. This finding is consistent with the re- ports of other studies conducted elsewhere [2,13]. GSD is ...
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Development of a duodenal gallstone ileus with gastric outlet obstruction (Bouveret syndrome) four months after successful treatment of symptomatic gallstone disease with cholecystitis and cholangitis: a case report
... Gallstone ileus accounts for approximately 1% to 4% of all cases of mechanical bowel obstruction. However, in the population over the age of 65 it is the cause of 25% of non-strangulated small bowel obstructions. ...
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Relation of cholesterol metabolism to pediatric gallstone disease: a retrospective controlled study
... cholestanol, of which solely the latter one reflects chole- stasis. This findings support the view that plant sterols may be involved in the pathogenesis of BPS. Further research is needed to evaluate whether screening ...
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A study of gallstone disease
... OPERATIVE BILIARY ENDOSCOPY (CHOLEDOCHOSCOPY) At operation, a flexible fibreoptic endoscope can be passed down the cystic duct into the common bile duct enabling stone identification and removal under direct vision. The ...
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Strong association between metabolically-abnormal obesity and gallstone disease in adults under 50 years
... of gallstone-associated complications, such as cholecyst- itis and gallstone pancreatitis, and a higher rate of surgical complications after cholecystectomy [29, ...on gallstone formation requires ...
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A comparative study between open and Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in gallstone disease
... Most series quote a major bile duct injury rate of around 0.2% during OC, whereas the incidence of bile duct injuries during LC is 0.40% or higher.10 These injuries can cause major morbi[r] ...
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Disorders of bile acid metabolism in cholesterol gallstone disease
... female gallstone patients classified according to their gallbladder function and in 15 healthy female ...controls. Gallstone patients had normal hepatic bile acid synthesis, but, depending on gallbladder ...
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... Female patients outnumbered male patients in cholelithiasis group (male to female ratio 1/1.8), while the opposite was the case in non- cholelithiasis group (male to female ratio 1.14/1). However, overall male to female ...
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A Study on Knowledge, Perceptions and Attitudes about Screening and Diagnosis of Diabetes in Saudi Population
... symptomatic gallstone disease undergoing elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy one single dose of prophylactic antibiotic injected at induction of anesthesia antibiotic prophylaxis is ...
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A Study on Clinical Profile and Short Term Follow Up of Acute Cholecystitis
... Acute cholecystitis is considered the most frequent complication of gallstone disease. Inflammation of the gallbladder wall that is associated with a clinical picture of abdominal pain, right upper quadrant ...
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Overexpression of Sterol Carrier Protein 2 in Patients with Hereditary Cholesterol Gallstones
... Cholesterol gallstone formation is a complicated process involving a variety of ...The gallstone disease is a genetic disease involving multiple genes and having the genetic characteristic of ...
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