ArticleLipids in health and disease2015
Clinical features of hepatolithiasis: analyses of multicenter-based surveys in Japan.
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- Not all reoperative laparoscopic liver resection procedures are feasible for hepatolithiasis patients with a history of biliary surgery.World journal of hepatology · 2025Trial
- Western Experience of Hepatolithiasis: Clinical Insights from a Case Series in a Tertiary Center.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Evolution of surgical treatment for hepatolithiasis.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2024Review
- Clinical, histopathological, and immunohistochemical spectrum of hepatolithiasis: a tertiary care center-based study from north India.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2024Article
- Percutaneous stone removal using cobra-shaped sheath and cholangioscopy for multiple hepatolithiasis with choledochoduodenal anastomotic stenosis.Radiology case reports · 2022Article
- Hepatolithiasis: clinical series, review and current management strategy.Turkish journal of surgery · 2020Article
- A proposed severity classification system for hepatolithiasis based on an analysis of prognostic factors in a Japanese patient cohort.Journal of gastroenterology · 2018Article
- Effective Treatment of Chronic Proliferative Cholangitis by Local Gentamicin Infusion in Rabbits.BioMed research international · 2018Article
- Step-by-step strategy in the management of residual hepatolithiasis using post-operative cholangioscopy.Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2017Review
- New surgical technique applied with urological instruments in bilobar multiple hepatolithiasis: Ultra-mini percutaneous hepatolithotomy.Turkish journal of urology · 2017Article
- A comparative evaluation of treatment methods for bile duct stones after hepaticojejunostomy between percutaneous transhepatic cholangioscopy and peroral, short double-balloon enteroscopy.Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundHepatolithiasis is a calculus disease of the liver with no known cause that is relatively uncommon, and is characterized by a refractory nature and high frequency of recurrence. Hepatolithiasis is one of the diseases listed by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan under Research on Intractable Diseases, and it requires further research on the pathogenesis as well as the therapeutic strategy. It is also included in the clinical guidelines for cholelithiasis of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology, which suggest guiding principles for the treatment of hepatolithiasis.
methodswe performed questionnaire surveys of hepatolithiasis twice in 2010 and in 2012. Verification of the evidence-based clinical practice guidelines a questionnaire survey of 22 facilities in 2010 and 25 facilities in 2012 across Japan that provided cooperation, which enabled us to assess 210 new cases over a two-year period.
conclusionsComparison with two surveys that have been carried out previously revealed the main factor associated with hepatolithiasis was a history of biliary tract surgery, which was noted in the majority of cases. In addition, there was an increase of patients in whom balloon endoscopy was performed using transduodenal approach. This method is not included in the treatment options of the current clinical guidelines for cholelithiasis, so there may be a need to take it into consideration when the guidelines are revised.
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