ArticleJournal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract2012
Biliary dyskinesia: how effective is cholecystectomy?
Article in Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Biliary Dyskinesia with Reduced Gallbladder Ejection Fraction: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Shift in Management.Journal of Brown hospital medicine · 2025Article
- Decision-making patterns in managing children with suspected biliary dyskinesia.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2017Article
- Pain provocation and low gallbladder ejection fraction with CCK cholescintigraphy are not predictive of chronic acalculous gallbladder disease symptom relief after cholecystectomy.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2014Article
- Biliary dyskinesia and symptomatic gallstone disease in children: two sides of the same coin?Digestive diseases and sciences · 2014Article
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Abstract
introductionStudies on biliary dyskinesia have been based on short-term surgical follow-up and do not take into consideration that most patients are discharged from surgical follow-up after the first postoperative visit and that for persistent or recurrent symptoms they are frequently seen by primary care providers and subsequently referred to gastroenterologists. We aimed to study this pattern and assess which factors predict patients that will benefit from cholecystectomy.
methodThis is a retrospective analysis of medical records of patients who underwent cholecystectomy for biliary dyskinesia from February 2001 to January 2010 with a minimum postoperative follow-up of 6 months.
resultsAt initial surgical follow-up, 19 of 141 (13.4%) patients said they had persistent symptoms. However, when subsequent visits were analyzed, 61 of 141 (43.3%) patients with persistent or recurrent symptoms saw their primary care provider. These symptoms were epigastric or right upper quadrant pain in 43 patients or 30% of those undergoing cholecystectomy. The only factor that distinguished patients with and without resolution of symptoms after cholecystectomy was the pathologic finding of inflammation (p = 0.02).
conclusionCholecystectomy does not appear to be as effective for biliary dyskinesia when long-term follow-up is evaluated.
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