to harbor biliary sludge should be treated expectantly. Those patients with symptoms or complications should be treated as shown in Figure 1 [2]. ...
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son of the incidence of biliary sludge formation in the. IVAA-treated patients and controls was performed by χ2 analysis. Analysis of group differences in ...
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Biliary sludge was first described with the advent of ultrasonography in the 1970s. ... Between 25% and 46% of initially asymptomatic patients treated with ceftriaxone develop sludge, but symptoms occur in only a minority of these patients (81). Precipitates form after approximately 9 days of treatment but resolve after...
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Objective: To evaluate the incidence and symptoms of and risk factors for biliary sludge and gallstones during pregnancy and to assess the natural history of these conditions in the first year after delivery. ... Glenn F, McSherry CK. Gallstones and pregnancy among 300 young women treated by cholecystectomy.
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For me, the biliary sludge caused a bad problem... it caused the bile to back up into my gallbladder. It's a wonder that I was able to digest anything at all. My surgeon said that because of all the sludge, if we had not done the ERCP first and cleaned it out, there would have been no way to do laproscopic surgery.
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Online Medical Dictionary and glossary with medical definitions ... More important than the differentiation by size is whether or not there are symptoms since symptoms of biliary sludge or gallstones are treated similarly.
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PURPOSE: To prospectively evaluate the incidence of biliary sludge and pseudolithiasis in children treated with ceftriaxone. ... PURPOSE: To prospectively evaluate the incidence of biliary sludge and pseudolithiasis in children treated with ceftriaxone. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Thirty-three children (14 girls,
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Doctor's Response:Biliary sludge is a mixture of particulate matter and mucous that forms in bile. (Bile is the yellow-brown fluid that drains from the liver into the gallbladder where it is stored and concentrated.
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The Jamaican experience suggests that biliary sludge may be treated conservatively, similar to our approach to asymptomatic gallstones. ...
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