These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Combined therapy with chenodeoxycholic acid and ursodeoxycholic acid of radiolucent biliary lithiasis].
    Author: Pérez Aguilar F, Breto M, del Val A, Berenguer J.
    Journal: An Med Interna; 1989 Mar; 6(3):119-24. PubMed ID: 2491184.
    Abstract:
    27 patients with radiolucent biliary stones in normofunctioning gall bladder were treated with a combination of CDCA and UDCA (CDCA doses = 7.7 mg/kg/day; UDCA--6.5 mg/kg/day); only 23 continued in the study for at least one year. The reasons for leaving were in one case the necessity of a cholecystectomy and treatment interruption in 3 cases. The rate of complete dissolution was of 39%, being of 17% the partial dissolution rate. The only biochemical alteration was the increase of HDL cholesterol at 9 and 12 months of treatment (p less than 0.05 and p less than 0.01 respectively). Transient diarrhea was seen in 17% of the patients and it did not require treatment. The incidence of liver colic during the year before treatment was 26% and it decreased during the 1st year of treatment to 4%. The non-specific dyspepsia observed during the year before treatment was of 48%, and decreased to 17% during the first year of treatment. Only one patient developed calcification of the gallstone, 12 months after treatment.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]