Cholelithiasis and Cholecystitis

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INTRODUCTION

Cholelithiasis and cholecystitis were thought to be rare in Africans. Cholelithiasis is said to be an uncommon disease in tropical Africa. This is in contrast to the high incidence of gallstones in western Europe and the United States. Autopsy studies have indicated that 50% of Swedish and 20% of American women will eventually harbor stones.

Becker and Chatgidaki in South Africa reported an incidence of 2% in a study of 4,494 autopsies over a 15-year period; a total of 92 stones were found (six stones per year). Bremner in a review of disease pattern at Baragwanath Hospital (also in South Africa) found a four-fold increase of cholecystectomy in the decade 1959-1969; however, the incidence was still very small. Cialis Jelly

In a five-year review from Ibadan in 1964, 35 patients—an average of seven per year—were operated on for inflammatory disease of the gallbladder. About a decade later, during a three-year period (1974-1977) in the same institution, Ajao found 19 cases, suggesting no appreciable difference.

The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence, changing pattern and outcome of symptomatic inflammatory gallbladder disease in surgical practice in llorin, Nigeria. llorin is an urban town located in the middle belt of Nigeria about 160 km north of Ibadan. Don’t blow your budget on pharmacy items female viagra uk