(1) A small risk of cholelithiasis exists with these drugs, and caution should be used when combining these drugs with HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors because the combination increases the incidence of hyperlipidemic myositis and rhabdomyolysis.
(2) In order to establish the incidence of cholelithiasis after vagotomy, the patients operated upon in the period January 1st 1966, to December 31st 1971, were reexamined.
(3) The glycosidase activities in bile from patients with liver diseases, as well as with cholelithiasis, were generally decreased.
(4) However a direct relationship between alcoholism and pigment cholelithiasis has not been previously demonstrated.
(5) This is a case report of a 13-year-old girl who had cholelithiasis secondary to endogenous hypertriglyceridemia.
(6) In a study including 392 patients we compared two groups of patients according to the indication for laparoscopic cholecystectomy: group I: 293 patients treated for simple cholelithiasis (n = 291) or gallbladder polyps (n = 2).
(7) Early diagnosis of cholelithiasis is essential, if CDC-therapy is to be applied more frequently and if this form of therapy is to have better effects.
(8) Seventy-eight patients have been treated with early surgery once a diagnosis of cholelithiasis associated pancreatitis was made.
(9) Obesity and cholelithiasis are also the risk factors for development of cancer of the given location.
(10) An analysis of the occurrence of gallbladder disease (ie, cholelithiasis, cholecystitis, cholecystectomy) in 210 consecutive patients with primary hyperlipoproteinemia showed that the prevalence of gallbladder disease was 8%, 18%, and 42% in males with type IIa, IIb, and IV hyperlipoproteinemia, and 22%, 48%, and 72% in the corresponding groups of females.
(11) The treatment of patients with sickle cell disease and cholelithiasis is controversial.
(12) In a prospective study of 70 patients with duodenal diverticula and calculous biliary tract disease, bacteriocholia with typical intestinal bacteria was found in 69%, whereas in cholelithiasis without duodenal diverticula this complication was present in 30% of the cases.
(13) When the possible effects of associated hypertension or diabetes mellitus were taken into account, subjects with cholelithiasis showed the same extent of raised and calcified lesions of the coronary arteries, the same prevalence of large myocardial scars, and the same distribution of heart weight as subjects without cholelithiasis.
(14) The cause of cholelithiasis has been explained on the basis of biochemical changes with mechanical obstruction.
(15) At the same time 40.5% of the patients with cholelithiasis are obese--II-IV degree of obesity.
(16) The time course of the blood and bile lipids and the relationship thereof reflect the depression of cholesterol hydroxylation processes and reduction with age of cholic and deoxycholic acids synthesis and conjugation intensities in the patients with cholelithiasis, as well as a reduction of deoxycholic acid synthesis in normal subjects.
(17) Six cases of lung cancer combined with the disease which has needed semi-emergency operation, two cases of unstable angina, two of ileus due to colon cancer, one of impending rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm and one of purulent cholecystitis with cholelithiasis, were discussed.
(18) This study shows that cirrhosis represents a risk factor for the development of cholelithiasis in males.
(19) The results showed that 37% of the cases were related to cholelithiasis, the highest incidence was in age above 60, and female patients were predominant and with higher mortality.
(20) Although, in the last years, the high transfusional regimen has decreased the incidence of cholelithiasis, the frequent liver disease could be a cause of acalculous cholecystopathy in younger thalassemic patients.
Lithiasis
Definition:
(n.) The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of 172 lithiasis of the common bile duct has been analysed.
(2) This is contested by the report of three cases of dilatation of Stensen's duct complicated by lithiasis and stenosis, with associated canalar pseudo-cysts.
(3) Management of obstructive upper ureteral calculi by first flushing the lithiasis to renal cavity and secondary extracorporeal lithotripsy is proposed as a routine guide-line, especially when treatment by ESWL is not immediately available.
(4) Here, the effect of alpha-lipoic acid was studied, on altered tissue lipid levels manifested during experimental renal lithiasis.
(5) Calcium or uric acid urethral lithiasis was the main cause of obstruction in the benign group.
(6) A case is presented on the use of extracorporeal lithotrity by shock waves to treat vesical lithiasis, using the desk module of a Lithostar-PlusR (Siemens) lithotripter.
(7) Since the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy performed in 1987 by Philippe Mouret in Lyon (France), there has been a real revolution in the field of visceral surgery: more and more operations are performed by this mini-invasive surgical method: lithiasis of the common bile duct, Nissen and Heller procedure, truncal vagotomies, abdominal and thoracic, supra-selective vagotomies, hernia, appendectomy, band sections during intestinal occlusion, resection of the colon and rectum, oesophagectomies ...
(8) Between May 1988 and December 1989, 369 patients were seen at our lithiasis unit.
(9) During a cholecystectomy performed for lithiasis in non functioning gallbladder, whose preoperative cholangiogram revealed nothing of suspect, the dissection of cystic duct was regular at its normal junction with the Common Bile Duct (CBD).
(10) There are two different forms of chronic pancreatitis: one is obstructive pancreatitis which results from a pre-existing obstacle (usually a tumour or a scar) and the other, much more frequent, is chronic calcifying pancreatitis which seems to begin with the formation of precipitates in acini and ducts, later transformed into stones and calcifications made up of calcium carbonate, and therefore is a pancreatic lithiasis.
(11) A small but not statistically significant increase in risk was found to be associated with a history of renal lithiasis.
(12) In calcium lithiasis, inhibitors have a significant effect in reducing the crystallization process.
(13) The finding of ciliated epithelium was associated with lithiasis of the gland in nearly 79% of cases.
(14) Ten patients without cholestasis remained asymptomatic, with disappearance of lithiasis in five of them.
(15) Thirty-three patients were given cholangiojejunoanastomoses: 13 for benign postoperative stenoses of the biliary tract (BT) with or without lithiasis; five for massive intra and extra-hepatic lithiasis; 15 for malignant stenoses on the upper third of the biliary ways.
(16) A case of ectopic fusion in the ileo-sacral site known as cake kidney whose peculiarity consists of totally asymptomatic right multiple reno-ureteral lithiasis identified by chance is reported.
(17) In patients with non-malignant diseases false positives results were related specially to urinary lithiasis and chronic renal failure.
(18) The short hospitalization, the low cost and the possibility of treatment on an outpatient basis should promote the spreading of percutaneous techniques in the treatment of bile duct lithiasis.
(19) Surgery and PCN are required only in cases of unsuccessful treatment or particular forms of lithiasis.
(20) The authors report their results with 58 patients presenting with pelvic lithiasis who were treated by extracorporeal lithotrity with the Dornier HM3 system.