A critical evaluation of real-time ultrasonography for the study of gallbladder volume and contraction
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Real-time ultrasonography is a simple, accurate, noninvasive and potentially valuable means of studying gallbladder size and emptying in intact man.About:
This article is published in Gastroenterology.The article was published on 1980-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 332 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Gallbladder Emptying & Gallbladder.read more
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Cholesterol gallstone disease
TL;DR: The physical-chemical mechanisms of gallstone formation in bile and the active role of the gallbladder and the intestine are discussed, and gaps in knowledge of the pathogenesis of gallstones formation and the potential for gene targeting in therapy are discussed.
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Sonographic measurement of gallbladder volume.
TL;DR: In vitro and in vivo testing was done to determine that a simple ellipsoid method applied to sonographic gallbladder images yields reasonable volume approximations that are comparable to the volumes calculated by the sum-of-cylinders method.
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Dysmotility of the small intestine in irritable bowel syndrome.
TL;DR: Several stimuli were applied in an attempt to unmask intestinal dysmotility in patients with IBS, finding that patients with diarrhoea were more sensitive to stimuli than those with constipation.
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Role of cholecystokinin in regulation of gastrointestinal motor functions.
BeatM. Meyer,Christoph Beglinger,JanB.M.J. Jansen,LucioC. Rovati,BaseliA. Werth,Pius Hildebrand,David Zach,G.A. Stalder +7 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that CCK is an important mediator of meal-induced gallbladder contraction and is involved in the regulation of gastrointestinal motility in man.
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Acalculous biliary pain: Cholecystectomy alleviates symptoms in patients with abnormal cholescintigraphy
TL;DR: It is concluded that the gallbladder ejection fraction obtained after a 45-minute infusion of cholecystokinin during cholescintigraphy is a reproducible measure ofgallbladder emptying, and that chole Cystectomy alleviates the biliary-type pain of patients with a reduced gallbladders.
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Gallbladder Emptying in Response to Cholecystokinin: A Cholescintigraphic Study
TL;DR: This cholescintigraphic technique would appear to offer a simple, accurate, yet noninvasive method for continuously monitoring the events during gallbladder contraction in humans.
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A simple method for computing the volume of the human gallbladder.
TL;DR: Reading the articles on motor function of the gallbladder published since the onset of the cholecystographic era, one is amazed to find two really different systems of approaching the subject: on one hand, that of Boyden and his co-workers, using a definite method of study and a procedure for estimatin...
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Gallbladder evacuation in the normal male induced by cholecystokinin.
TL;DR: In this paper, Gallbladder evacuation in the normal male induced by cholecystokinin was studied. But the authors did not consider the effects of the cholecycline on the gallbladder.
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Use of the constant perfusion technique in the nonsteady state.
M. D. Levitt,John H. Bond +1 more
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Quantitative analysis of human biliary evacuation with a radioisotopic technique.
Edwin Englert,Vincent S.W. Chiu +1 more
TL;DR: It was postulated that the steps in biliary emptying were the resultant of the moment-to-moment interplay between gall bladder contraction and resistance in the biliary sphincteric mechanism.
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