Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Epidemiology and Natural History of Gallstone Disease
Laura M. Stinton and Eldon A. Shaffer (Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Chapter 2. Gallstone Disease in Japan
Susumu Tazuma (Department of General Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University Hospital, Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan)
Chapter 3. Physical-Chemistry of Biliary Lipids and Cholesterol Crystallization
Tony Y. Wang, Piero Portincasa and David Q.-H. Wang (Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA)
Chapter 4. The Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Management of Biliary Sludge
Piero Portincasa, Helen J. Wang, Ornella de Bari, and David Q.-H. Wang (Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA)
Chapter 5. Pathophysiology of Gallstones
Cynthia W. Ko (Division of Gastroenterology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
Chapter 6. Gallbladder Motility Dysfunction on Gallstone Formation
Piero Portincasa and David Q.-H. Wang (Clinica Medica “A. Murri”, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy)
Chapter 7. The Roles of the Immune System, Inflammation, Infection and the Microbiome on Cholesterol Gallstone Pathogenesis
Kirk J. Maurer (Center for Comparative Medicine and Research, Department of Surgery, Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH, USA)
Chapter 8. The Function of Nuclear Receptors in Cholesterol Gallstone Disease
Jinhan He and Wen Xie (Center for Pharmacogenetics and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
Chapter 9. The Role of Enterohepatic Circulation of Bile Acids in Cholesterol Gallstone Diseases
Tiangang Li (Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA)
Chapter 10. The Role of Lith Genes in Cholesterol Gallstone Formation
Helen H. Wang, Piero Portincasa and David Q.-H. Wang (Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA)
Chapter 11. Identification of Gallstone Susceptibility (Lith) Genes in the Inbred Mouse Model of Cholelithiasis
Henning Wittenburg (HELIOS Hospital Schleswig, Department of Internal Medicine II/Gastroenterology, Lutherstraße, Schleswig, Germany)
Chapter 12. Heritability of Gallstones in Humans
Marcin Krawczyk and Frank Lammert (Department of Medicine II, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Germany)
Chapter 13. Gallstones in Pregnancy
Piero Portincasa, Ornella de Bari and David Q.-H. Wang (Clinica Medica “A. Murri”, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy)
Chapter 14. Diet and Gallstones
Piero Portincasa, Leonilde Bonfrate, Agostino Di Ciaula, Ornella De Bari, Gabriella Garruti, Marco Gobbetti, Gema Frühbeck, and David Q.-H. Wang (Clinica Medica “A. Murri”, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy)
Chapter 15. The Effects of Diet and Obesity on Cholesterol Gallstone Disease
Aaron May and Min Liu (Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA)
Chapter 16. Role of Insulin Resistance in the Formation of Cholesterol Gallstones
Agostino Di Ciaula, Gabriella Garruti, David Q.-H. Wang, and Piero Portincasa (Division of Internal Medicine, Hospital of Bisceglie, Bisceglie, ASL BAT, Italy)
Chapter 17. Diabetes and Gallstones
Agostino Di Ciaula, Gabriella Garruti, David Q.-H. Wang, and Piero Portincasa (Division of Internal Medicine, Hospital of Bisceglie, Bisceglie, ASL BAT, Italy)
Chapter 18. Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Gallstone Disease
Piero Portincasa and David Q.-H. Wang (Clinica Medica “A. Murri”, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy)
Chapter 19. Diagnostic Flow Charts for Biliary Lithiasis
Samer Alkaade, Nabeel S. Koro and Mitesh B. Patel (Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA)
Chapter 20. Gallbladder Imaging
Jacob S. Ecanow and Richard M. Gore (Department of Radiology, NorthShore University Health System, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Evanston, IL, USA)
Chapter 21. Current Pharmacological Therapy in Cholesterol Gallstones
Piero Portincasa and David Q.-H. Wang (Clinica Medica “A. Murri”, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy)
Chapter 22. Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
Felice Giuliante, Gennaro Clemente and Agostino M. De Rose (Hepatobiliary Surgery Unit, Foundation University Hospital “A. Gemelli”, Catholic University of Sacred Hearth, Rome, Italy)
Chapter 23. Surgical Treatment of Common Bile Duct Stones
Charlotte S. Loozen and Djamila Boerma (Department of Surgery, St Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands)
Chapter 24. Recent Progress in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Gallstones
Eric C.H. Lai (Department of Surgery, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Chai Wan, Hong Kong SAR, China)
Chapter 25. Endoscopic Management of Biliary Ductal Stones
Luigi M. Fenoglio, Cristina Serraino, Laura M. Spadafora, and Carlo Fenoglio (Department of Internal Medicine, Santa Croce General Hospital, Cuneo, Italy)
Chapter 26. Hepatolithiasis: Progress in Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment
Yutaka Suzuki, Toshiyuki Mori, Susumu Tazuma, Hajime Takikawa, and Masanori Sugiyama (Department of Surgery, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan)
Chapter 27. Recent Progress on the Endoscopic Treatment of Bile Duct Stones with Endoscopic Papillary Large Balloon Dilation
Toshio Tsuyuguchi, Harutoshi Sugiyama, Yuji Sakai, and Osamu Yokosuka (Department of Gastroenterology and Nephrology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan)
Chapter 28. Surgical Treatment of Gallstones and their Complications
Kurinchi Gurusamy (Royal Free Campus, UCL Medical School, Royal Free Hospital, London, the United Kingdom)
Chapter 29. Treatment of Intrahepatic Duct Stones: A Western Perspective
Felice Giuliante, Agostino M. De Rose and Francesco Ardito (Hepatobiliary Surgery Unit, Foundation University Hospital “A. Gemelli”, Catholic University of Sacred Hearth, Rome, Italy)
Chapter 30. Mirizzi Syndrome
Helen H. Wang, Piero Portincasa, and David Q.-H. Wang (Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA)
About the Editors
Index