Incidence of symptomatic gallstones after gastric bypass: is prophylactic treatment really necessary?

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 564-567

  Caruana, Joseph A ^a   McCabe, Marc N ^a   Smith, Audrey D ^a   Camara, Daniel Sette ^a   Mercer, Michele A ^b   Gillespie, John A ^b  

^a SISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Gallstones; Gastric bypass; Prophylactic treatment; Ursodiol

Indexed keywords

URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLSTONE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STOMACH BYPASS; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; CHOLAGOGUES AND CHOLERETICS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTOLITHIASIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 33645913462     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2005.08.004     Document Type: Article

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