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Cholecystectomy Deferral In Patients With Endoscopic Sphincterotomy, Vivian Mcalister, Eric Davenport, Elizabeth Renouf
Cholecystectomy Deferral In Patients With Endoscopic Sphincterotomy, Vivian Mcalister, Eric Davenport, Elizabeth Renouf
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BACKGROUND: Cholecystectomy is not required in up to 64% of patients who adopt a wait-and-see policy after endoscopic clearance of common bile duct stones. Although reports of retrospective cohort series have shown a higher mortality among patients who defer cholecystectomy, it is not known if this is due to the patients' premorbid health status or due to the deferral of cholecystectomy. Randomised clinical trials of prophylactic cholecystectomy versus wait-and-see have not had sufficient power to demonstrate differences in survival.
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the beneficial and harmful effects of cholecystectomy deferral (wait-and-see) versus elective (prophylactic) cholecystectomy in patients who have had …