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Colelitíase (cálculos biliares)

Last reviewed: 15 Jan 2026
Last updated: 14 Aug 2025

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • dor epigástrica ou no quadrante superior direito (com duração >30 minutos)
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Other diagnostic factors

  • dor pós-prandial
  • sensibilidade epigástrica ou no quadrante superior direito do abdome
  • náuseas
  • icterícia
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Risk factors

  • idade mais avançada
  • sexo feminino
  • Etnia hispânica e indígena norte-americana
  • história familiar de cálculos biliares
  • mutações genéticas
  • níveis elevados de estrogênio e progesterona
  • obesidade, diabetes e síndrome metabólica
  • doença hepática gordurosa não alcoólica
  • jejum prolongado/perda de peso rápida
  • nutrição parenteral total (NPT)
  • uso de octreotida
  • uso de agonistas do receptor de peptídeo semelhante ao glucagon 1 (GLP-1)
  • uso de ceftriaxona
  • doença ou ressecção do íleo terminal
  • hemoglobinopatia
  • cirrose
  • fibrose cística
  • dieta e estilo de vida
  • infecção da vesícula biliar por Helicobacter pylori
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Diagnostic tests

1st tests to order

  • ultrassonografia abdominal
  • testes séricos da função hepática
  • Hemograma completo
  • lipase e amilase séricas
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Tests to consider

  • colangiopancreatografia por ressonância magnética (CPRM)
  • USE
  • colangiopancreatografia retrógrada endoscópica (CPRE)
  • tomografia computadorizada (TC) abdominal
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

colelitíase sintomática

coledocolitíase com ou sem sintomas

ONGOING

colelitíase assintomática

Contributors

Authors

Eldon Shaffer, MD, FRCPC

Emeritus Professor of Medicine

Division of Gastroenterology

University of Calgary

Calgary

Canada

Disclosures

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

Acknowledgements

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

Disclosures

VKS and ANK declare that they have no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Timothy B. Gardner, MD

Assistant Professor

Director of Pancreatic Disorders

Section of Gastroenterology

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Lebanon

NH

Disclosures

TBG declares that he has no competing interests.

Ajith Siriwardena, MD, FRCS

Professor of Hepatobiliary Surgery

Manchester Royal Infirmary

Manchester

UK

Disclosures

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

Divulgaciones

KG declares that he has no competing interests.

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Artículos principales

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

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.Texto completo  Resumen

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

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