Cholelithiasis (Gallstones)

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Last updated: 14 Aug 2025

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Определение

Анамнез и осмотр

Ключевые диагностические факторы

  • right upper quadrant (RUQ) or epigastric pain (lasting >30 minutes)
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Другие диагностические факторы

  • postprandial pain
  • RUQ or epigastric tenderness
  • nausea
  • jaundice
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Факторы риска

  • increasing age
  • female sex
  • Hispanic and American Indian ethnicity
  • family history of gallstones
  • gene mutations
  • elevated estrogen and progesterone levels
  • obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome
  • nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
  • prolonged fasting/rapid weight loss
  • total parenteral nutrition (TPN)
  • use of octreotide
  • use of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists
  • use of ceftriaxone
  • terminal ileum disease or resection
  • hemoglobinopathy
  • cirrhosis
  • cystic fibrosis
  • diet and lifestyle
  • helicobacter pylori gallbladder infection
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Диагностические исследования

Исследования, которые показаны в первую очередь

  • abdominal ultrasound
  • serum liver function tests
  • CBC
  • serum lipase or amylase
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Исследования, проведение которых нужно рассмотреть

  • magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP)
  • endoscopic ultrasound scan (EUS)
  • endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
  • abdominal CT scan
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Алгоритм лечения

Острый

symptomatic cholelithiasis

choledocholithiasis with or without symptoms

ПРОДОЛЖЕНИЕ

asymptomatic cholelithiasis

Составители

Эксперты-консультанты

Eldon Shaffer, MD, FRCPC

Emeritus Professor of Medicine

Division of Gastroenterology

University of Calgary

Calgary

Canada

Раскрытие информации

ES is an author of several references cited in this topic.

Выражение благодарностей

Professor Eldon Shaffer would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Vikesh K. Singh and Dr Anthony N. Kalloo, previous contributors to this topic.

Раскрытие информации

VKS and ANK declare that they have no competing interests.

Рецензенты

Timothy B. Gardner, MD

Assistant Professor

Director of Pancreatic Disorders

Section of Gastroenterology

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Lebanon

NH

Declarações

TBG declares that he has no competing interests.

Ajith Siriwardena, MD, FRCS

Professor of Hepatobiliary Surgery

Manchester Royal Infirmary

Manchester

UK

Declarações

AS declares that he has no competing interests.

Kurinchi Gurusamy, MBBS, MS, MRCS, MSc

Clinical Research Fellow

Hepatopancreatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgery

University Department of Surgery

Royal Free Campus

UCL Medical School

London

UK

Disclosures

KG declares that he has no competing interests.

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Key articles

European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL). EASL clinical practice guidelines on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of gallstones. J Hepatol. 2016 Jul;65(1):146-81.Full text  Abstract

ASGE Standards of Practice Committee; Buxbaum JL, Abbas Fehmi SM, Sultan S, et al. ASGE guideline on the role of endoscopy in the evaluation and management of choledocholithiasis. Gastrointest Endosc. 2019 Jun;89(6):1075-105;e15.Full text  Abstract

Tazuma S, Unno M, Igarashi Y, et al. Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for cholelithiasis 2016. J Gastroenterol. 2017 Mar;52(3):276-300.Full text  Abstract

Reference articles

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