Internal Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918
CASE REPORTS
Multiple Primary Choledocholithiasis in Sickle Cell Disease
Perla VicariMarco Vinicio Fanucchi GilRita de Cássia Rosário CavalheiroMaria Stella Figueiredo
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2008 Volume 47 Issue 24 Pages 2169-2170

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Choledocholithiasis can be caused by either primary or secondary bile duct stones. Although patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) are at high risk of development of pigmented gallstones due to chronic hemolysis, primary choledocholithiasis in SCD is very uncommon. The delay in the diagnosis of biliary tract pathology can occur in patients who had a prior cholecystectomy. There is a possible relationship between prior cholecystectomy and the subsequent occurrence of primary common bile duct stones, due to the higher probability of infection of the biliary system. Here, we report an unusual and severe case of multiple primary choledocholithiasis, associated with pancreatitis, in a patient with SCD, fourteen years after cholecystectomy.

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