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- Title
Evidence for sphincter dysfunction in patients with gallstone associated pancreatitis: Effect of ceruletide in patients undergoing cholecystectomy for gallbladder disease and gallstone associated pancreatitis.
- Authors
Cuschieri, A.; Cumming, J. G. R.; Wood, R. A. B.; Baker, P. R.
- Abstract
The functional activity of the sphincter of Oddi complex has been examined by ceruletide manometry in patients undergoing cholecystectomy with a normal peroperative cholangiogram. In Group I (n = 14), which included patients with previous acute cholecystitis/biliary colic, the sphincter activity appeared to be normal and responded to intravenous ceruletide by a marked relaxation with a significant fall in both the infusion and postinfusion pressures. In patients undergoing cholecystectomy for gallstone-associated pancreatitis (n = 8), the sphincter exhibited manometric features of hypotonia with low infusion and postinfusion pressures which were not significantly altered by intravenous ceruletide.
- Publication
British Journal of Surgery, 1984, Vol 71, Issue 11, p885
- ISSN
0007-1323
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bjs.1800711127