Abstract | BACKGROUND: METHODS: RESULTS: Forty-one patients (19.5%, Group 1) agreed to elective cholecystectomy whereas 169 patients (80.5%, Group 2) did not. Mean (+/- SEM) follow-up for Groups 1 and 2 were, respectively, 110.2 +/- 6.6 and 96.8 +/- 2.9 months. Endoscopic papillotomy was performed in 120 patients, 22 (53.7%) in Group 1 and 98 (58%) in Group 2. Recurrent acute cholangitis developed in 31 patients (14.8%), 9 in Group 1 and 22 in Group 2. There was no significant difference in the Kaplan-Meier estimates of the cumulative probability of occurrence of recurrent acute cholangitis between the 2 groups (p = 0.90). Recurrent acute cholangitis developed in 10 patients (8.3%) who underwent endoscopic papillotomy and in 21 (23.3%) patients who did not. There was a significant difference in the Kaplan-Meier estimates of the cumulative probability of occurrence of recurrent acute cholangitis between the patients with endoscopic papillotomy versus those without endoscopic papillotomy (p = 0.001). CONCLUSION:
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Authors | Chee-Kin Hui, Kam-Chuen Lai, Man-Fung Yuen, Matthew Ma-Tai Ng, Shiu-Kum Lam, Ching-Lung Lai |
Journal | Gastrointestinal endoscopy
(Gastrointest Endosc)
Vol. 56
Issue 1
Pg. 55-60
(Jul 2002)
ISSN: 0016-5107 [Print] United States |
PMID | 12085035
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Acute Disease
- Ampulla of Vater
(surgery)
- Asian People
- Cholangitis
(prevention & control)
- Cholecystectomy
- Cholelithiasis
(complications)
- Elective Surgical Procedures
- Endoscopy, Digestive System
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Recurrence
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