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2. Cholelitholytic therapy for cholesterol gallstones - Dissolution efficacy and biliary bile acid composition

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chenodeoxycholic acid (CDCA), cholelitholytic therapy, lithogenic index, trihydroxy propiophenone, ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA)
Abstract

Eighty-three patients with cholesterol gallstones in a functioning gallbladder were treated with 400mg UDCA and 200mg CDCA (group A), 300mg UDCA and 300mg CDCA (group B), 200mg UDCA and 400mg CDCA (group C), 400mg CDCA alone (group D), 400mg CDCA and 240mg trihydroxy propiophenone (group E), or 600mg UDCA alone (group F). All patients were followed by cholecystography and ultrasonography. At the end of 6 months of treatment, the cumulative efficacy (complete plus partial dissolution) of all subjects were 41.0%. Twelve patients (14.5%) had complete dissolution. Group B had the highest dissolution rate (69.2%:38.5% complete and 30.7% partial dissolution), and this rate was significantly higher (p

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1987

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