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VOL. 3, ISSUE 2 (2021)
The main types of clinical presentation of gallstone disease
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Salih Abdul-Kafi Hammoodi Al-Ani, Ahmed Waleed Ibrahim, Mounis Mahdi Salih, Luai Farhan Zghair
Abstract
Background: Gallstone disease is the most frequent biliary pathology and one of the main problems affecting the gastrointestinal tract. Aim of study: to recognize the main types of clinical presentations of gallstone disease with their management and age distribution. Method:100 adult patients with gallstone disease 70 female 70% and 30 males 30% with age ranging from 20-80 years, all of them were diagnosed in an outpatient or emergency department of Al-Yarmouk teaching hospital they were divided into two main groups as cold and emergency groups according to their clinical presentation, each group has 5 types of clinical presentations. Result: in this study there are 10 different types of clinical presentations of gallstone disease were recognized, the 75 patients (75%) belong to the cold cases group has five types of clinical presentations including symptomatic gallstones, chronic cholecystitis, jaundice, incidental gallstone and attacks of biliary colic. The remaining 25 patients (25%) belong to emergency cases has five different clinical presentations including signs and symptoms of acute cholecystitis, acute biliary pancreatitis, cholangitis, acute abdomen, intestinal obstruction (gallstone ileus). All the hundred patients in this study underwent cholecystectomy either as elective or as emergency surgery whether open or laparoscopic techniques. Gallstone disease is common with a wide spectrum of different clinical presentations there are 10 different main clinical presentations of gallstone disease. The gallstone disease are mainly found in age 31-40years and they are low in age of 60-80years. The main clinical presentation in cold cases group was signs and symptoms of chronic cholecystitis while signs and symptoms of acute cholecystitis were the main presentation in emergency cases group.
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Pages:10-12
How to cite this article:
Salih Abdul-Kafi Hammoodi Al-Ani, Ahmed Waleed Ibrahim, Mounis Mahdi Salih, Luai Farhan Zghair "The main types of clinical presentation of gallstone disease ". International Journal of Medical Science and Research, Vol 3, Issue 2, 2021, Pages 10-12
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