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Stone size influences the rate of spontaneous stone passage.
Initial stone location also influences the likelihood of spontaneous stone passage.
In patients who are predisposed to stone formation (e.g., those with Randall's plaques), low urinary volume resulting from sweating on hot days may result in spontaneous stone nucleation and/or cause small asymptomatic stones to grow large enough to become symptomatic.
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In general, many patients with biliary AP experience spontaneous passage of stone and ERCP is not recommended in these patients, while endoscopic removal of bile duct stone with ERCP is recommended if it does not pass spontaneously.
We postulate that the lower rate detection of CBD stones in our study may reflect spontaneous passage of the stones, which is reported to occur at a rate of 20% per week [ 16], and would be affected by the time between the initial clinical presentation and the EUS examination.
In fact, in both studies, spontaneous passage of the stone within a few days after the acute episode was observed in all patients with a false-negative US examination.
Medical expulsive therapy (MET) is widely used to promote spontaneous passage of urinary stones.
The spontaneous passage rate of stones during pregnancy is up to 64 84 % of cases with conservative therapy [43, 44, 45].
But most, like that in Syria, were spontaneous: last Wednesday 4,000 people stoned the heavily fortified US embassy, scaled its walls and tore down its flag, chanting "Jerusalem is ours, down with America, down with Israel".
Early recognition and removal of CBD stone by ERCP or spontaneous passage of the stones might have a beneficial influence on the clinical course of biliary AP.
On T1-weighted sequences, stones present with a spontaneous hyperintensity and, recently, studies have shown the superiority of these sequences over the T2-weighted sequences for the detection of biliary stones [24].
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