Sentence examples for gallbladder sludge from inspiring English sources

The significance of gallbladder sludge as a potential cause of acute biliary pancreatitis is debated.

Gallbladder sludge was evaluated by ultrasound on ICU day 5 by blinded assessors (n = 776).

US findings that were evaluated included: gallbladder wall thickening, gallbladder distention, striated gallbladder wall, pericholecystic fluid and gallbladder sludge.

We report the incidence and outcome of patients with gallbladder sludge in a large population of patients with pancreatitis.

The features of these suspected melamine related renal deposits on ultrasonography resemble gallbladder sludge rather than calcified stones.

More patients in the early PN than in the late PN group had gallbladder sludge on day 5 (45% vs. 37%; P = 0.04).

steatosis, cholestasis, formation of gallbladder stones or sludge.

Three types of hepatobiliary disorders are associated with IFALD: steatosis, cholestasis, formation of gallbladder stones or sludge.

Along with a compatible clinical picture, ultrasonographic criteria of acute cholecystitis are a distended gallbladder, thickened walls, biliary sludge and lithiasis (calculus type), pericholecystic fluid and sonographic Murphy's sign [41, 42].

Abdominal ultrasound revealed chronic diffuse hepatopathy, decreased size of gallbladder without gallstones or sludge and thicken gallbladder wall.

The US images revealed many small stones and sludge in the gallbladder (Fig. 1a).