TY - JOUR ID - TI - Incidence and Outcome of Asymptomatic Gallstones among Peoples Living in Kirkuk City AU - Chalack Kader Nader AU - Dler Omer Mohammed PY - 2017 VL - 22 IS - 1 SP - 157 EP - 172 JO - The Medical Journal of Tikrit University المجلة الطبية لجامعة تكريت SN - 18131638 AB - Background: Gallstone disease is a common disease occurring in about 15-20% in Europe & North America. As long as the natural-history of the disease remains asymptomatic in about 80% of cases, it is regarded a benign condition (1).Patients methods : During the period of this prospective study over five years from January 2009 to December 2015, a total of 600 hospital patients were screened by ultrasound to evaluate the prevalence of asymptomatic gallstones, in 545 subjects no gallstones were found, in the remaining 55 subjects gallstones were found.Aims: The main purposes of this prospective study are to detect the incidence of asymptomatic gallstone in our community, to evaluate the risk factors in the aetiology of gallstone disease, to know the common presentation and management options of patients with asymptomatic gallstone and to compare them with the symptomatic group.Results: From 600 patients, 55 patients were found to have asymptomatic gallstones constituting 9.2%, 15 patients were lost from follow up. 40 cases were studied prospectively, and all of them had undergone cholecystectomy.Conclusion: We found that the percentage of asymptomatic gallstones was (9.2%). Majority of them were females, with female to male ratio of 2:1.

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