Bile Salts And Gallstones. When the bile contains too much cholesterol and not enough bile salts cholesterol gallstones may develop. The evidence to date suggests that although oral bile salts may be of use in treating some gallstone patients they are unlikely to replace cholecystectomy in the foreseeable future.
Two basic possibilities exist which could account for abnormal bile production. Bile salts play an important role in maintaining cholesterol in aqueous solution in bile. Most people who have gallstones do not have symptoms.
BOUCHIER Fromthe DepartmentofMedicine TheRoyalFree Hospital London SUMMARY Gallbladder bile from patients with cholesterol stones and control patients without cholesterol stones was analysed for the relative concentrations of bile salts phospholipids and.
Too much cholesterol bile salts or bilirubin bile pigment can cause gallstones. The evidence to date suggests that although oral bile salts may be of use in treating some gallstone patients they are unlikely to replace cholecystectomy in the foreseeable future. Gallstone sizes vary with some as the size of sand and other as large as a golf ball. Gallstones are hard deposits of cholesterol bile salts and bilirubin in your gall bladderThe medical term for gallstones is cholelithiasis.
