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| ISSN |
1948-5182 (online) |
| Open Access |
This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
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© The Author(s) 2016. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.
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Baishideng Publishing Group Inc, 7041 Koll Center Parkway, Suite 160, Pleasanton, CA 94566, USA |
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http://www.wjgnet.com |
| Category |
Gastroenterology & Hepatology |
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Observational Study |
| Article Title |
Enzyme pattern of biliary colic: A counterintuitive picture
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Invited Manuscript |
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Elad Resnick, Shimon Shteingart, Bernardo Melamud, Tali Bdolah-Abram, Todd Zalut, Adrian Reuben and Yoav Lurie |
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| Corresponding Author |
Yoav Lurie, MD, Head of Liver Unit, Digestive Disease Institute, Share’e Zedek Medical Center, 12 Shmu’el Bait Street, Jerusalem 91031, Israel. yoav@szmc.org.il |
| Key Words |
Biliary colic; Symptomatic cholelithiasis; Gallstones; Liver enzymes; Aspartate aminotransferase; Alanine aminotransferase; Enzyme pattern; Diagnostic tool; Emergency department |
| Core Tip |
Gallstones are prevalent in affluent countries, more so in women than in men, and their prevalence increases with age. A large proportion of patients pre-senting to the emergency department with epigastric or right upper quadrant (RUQ) pain present a diagnostic challenge, especially when they belong to the older age group. We found that serial liver and biliary enzyme measurements reveal a characteristic pattern that helps the clinician determine quickly, cheaply and safely that the cause of RUQ/epigastric pain is biliary colic, in 71% of the patients. Serial enzyme testing is a useful adjunct to other diagnostic tools, for the diagnosis of acute upper abdominal pain. |
| Publish Date |
2016-12-27 08:31 |
| Citation |
Resnick E, Shteingart S, Melamud B, Bdolah-Abram T, Zalut T, Reuben A, Lurie Y. Enzyme pattern of biliary colic: A counterintuitive picture. World J Hepatol 2016; 8(36): 1629-1636 |
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http://www.wjgnet.com/1948-5182/full/v8/i36/1629.htm |
| DOI |
http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v8.i36.1629 |
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