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Patients are often referred for evaluation of a wide range of GI complaints including dysphagia, abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, constipation or diarrhoea. Many are diagnosed with 'functional' disease when endoscopy or conventional radiological studies fail to identify an anatomic cause for the patient's symptoms. In such cases nuclear medicine offers non-invasive methods for objectively demonstrating disease involving different areas of the gastrointestinal tract. Increasingly scintigraphy is playing a primary role in the evaluation of patients with suspected acute cholecystitis, active gastrointestinal bleeding, gastroparesis, and small and large bowel motility disorders. In addition, it supplements other studies when results are inconclusive in diagnosing oesophageal dysmotility, gastro-oesophageal reflux, acalculous cholecystitis, and postoperative complications of gastrointestinal surgery.
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PMID:Current applicability of scintigraphic methods in gastroenterology. 777 16

From 1990 through 1993, we treated 36 patients with recurrent typical biliary colic but who showed no ultrasonic evidence of cholelithiasis by laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Associated symptoms included nausea (75%), bloating (56%), fatty-food intolerance (53%), vomiting (17%), weight loss (31%), bowel irregularity (28%), reflux or dyspepsia (25%), and fever (17%). Diagnostic evaluation included ultrasound (100%), upper gastrointestinal series (36%), oral cholecystogram (14%), computed tomographic scan (39%), endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (17%), upper gastrointestinal endoscopy (14%), and hepatobiliary scan (92%). Quantitative hepatobiliary scans in 33 patients revealed a low gallbladder ejection fraction (EF) of less than 35% in 29 patients (88%; mean EF = 9%), and 13 patients experienced reproducible pain after cholecystokinin provocation. All patients underwent attempted laparoscopic cholecystectomy; one case of unsuspected acute acalculous cholecystitis was converted to open laparotomy because of unclear anatomy. Gross and histological examination of the gallbladders revealed chronic inflammation (83%), cholesterolosis (31%), cholesterol crystals or small stones (17%), acute inflammation (8%), polyps (6%), and normal histology (6%); however, blind retrospective scoring of gallbladders revealed significant chronic inflammation in only 38%. In the 2 to 40 months (mean, 14 months) since operation, there have been no deaths (97% follow-up). Laparoscopic cholecystectomy relieved pain in 93% of patients with a low preoperative EF compared with 75% of patients with a normal EF (nonsignificant p value). Persistent abdominal or gastrointestinal complaints included flatulence (31%), loose stools or fecal urgency (29%), belching (29%), indigestion (20%), nausea (11%), and "typical" gallbladder pain (9%). We conclude that many patients with symptoms of biliary colic and scintigraphic evidence of biliary dyskinesia have histologic findings of chronic cholecystitis. Although laparoscopic cholecystectomy usually eliminates biliary colic, persistent nonbiliary complaints are frequent.
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PMID:Chronic acalculous cholecystitis: laparoscopic treatment. 868 Jun 33

In December 2011, an 84-year-old Japanese man was admitted with severe cholecystitis. We treated the cholecystitis using antibiotics, and his symptoms improved. In March 2012, he was readmitted after experiencing a sudden bloating sensation and vomiting. We determined that a gastric wall abscess had protruded into the antrum. The gastric wall was adjacent to the gallbladder, and the gastric abscess was related to a known case of cholecystitis. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy indicated that the abscess was under the mucous membrane of the gastric antrum. Pus, exuding from the abscess, was aspirated with an endoscope.
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PMID:Gastric outlet obstruction induced by a gastric wall abscess after cholecystitis. 2544 48

An intraluminal duodenal diverticulum (IDD) is a rare congenital anomaly, which is a result of incomplete recanalization of the foregut lumen during embryonic development. Most patients are asymptomatic. Symptoms usually occur after the third decade of life and mainly include epigastric pain, nausea, vomiting, or bloating. Less commonly, IDD may complicate with bleeding, duodenal obstruction, or acute pancreatitis. We present a case of IDD, manifested for a first time in adult with acute biliary obstruction and mild pancreatitis after laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute calculous cholecystitis, successfully managed with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).
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PMID:Intraluminal duodenal ("windsock") diverticulum: a rare cause of biliary obstruction and acute pancreatitis in the adult. 3065 19