<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Approximately twenty per cent of adults have gallstones making it one of the most prevalent gastrointestinal diseases in Western countries. About twenty per cent of gallstone patients requires medical, endoscopic, or surgical therapies such as cholecystectomy due to the onset of gallstone-related symptoms or gallstone-related complications. Thus, patients with symptomatic, uncomplicated or complicated gallstones, regardless of the type of stones, represent one of the largest patient categories admitted to European hospitals.</p><p>This review deals with the important critical care aspects associated with a gallstone-related disease.</p></abstract>

Approximately twenty per cent of adults have gallstones making it one of the most prevalent gastrointestinal diseases in Western countries. About twenty per cent of gallstone patients requires medical, endoscopic, or surgical therapies such as cholecystectomy due to the onset of gallstone-related symptoms or gallstone-related complications. Thus, patients with symptomatic, uncomplicated or complicated gallstones, regardless of the type of stones, represent one of the largest patient categories admitted to European hospitals.This review deals with the important critical care aspects associated with a gallstone-related disease.

Critical Care Aspects of Gallstone Disease

The Journal of Critical Care Medicine

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Approximately twenty per cent of adults have gallstones making it one of the most prevalent gastrointestinal diseases in Western countries. About twenty per...

Critical Care Aspects of Gallstone Disease

Article Category: Review

Pubblicato online: 04 feb 2019

Pagine: 6 - 18

Ricevuto: 05 dic 2018

Accettato: 08 gen 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jccm-2019-0003

Parole chiave
bile, biliary colic, biliary secretion, cholecystectomy, cholecystitis, choledocholithiasis, cholesterol crystallization, CT scan, ERCP, MRCP

© 2019 Piero Portincasa, Emilio Molina-Molina, Gabriella Garruti, David Q.-H. Wang, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Critical Care Aspects of Gallstone Disease

Article Category: Review

Pubblicato online: 04 feb 2019

Pagine: 6 - 18

Ricevuto: 05 dic 2018

Accettato: 08 gen 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jccm-2019-0003

Parole chiavebile, biliary colic, biliary secretion, cholecystectomy, cholecystitis, choledocholithiasis, cholesterol crystallization, CT scan, ERCP, MRCP

© 2019 Piero Portincasa, Emilio Molina-Molina, Gabriella Garruti, David Q.-H. Wang, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Parole chiave
bile, biliary colic, biliary secretion, cholecystectomy, cholecystitis, choledocholithiasis, cholesterol crystallization, CT scan, ERCP, MRCP