Abstract |
Extracorporeal shock vave lithotripsy (ESWI.) with
adjunctive oral ]itholytic therapy has proven to be a
useful treatment in selected patients with gallbladder
stones. To study the effect of ESWL on gillbladder
dynamics, 99mTc-DISIDA hepatobiliary scintigraphy was
done for 25 patients with symptomatic gallstones and 10
norrnal controls. Of these 25 patients, 15 were treated
with ESWL and adjunctive oral litholytic agents (ESWL
group) and 10 were treated only with oral litholytic
agents (UDCA group). After overnight fast and
gallbladder visualization on a routine hepatobiliary
scintigra- phy with 7mCi of 99mTc-DISIDA, subjects were
given fatty meal and imaged with a gamma camera
interfaced to a computer (I frame/minute for
i0minutes). A galibladder time-activity curve was
generated and latent period (LP), ejection period (EP),
ejection fraction (EF) ancl ejection rate (ER) v,ere
calcutated, ESWL group were studied before, lday after
and 2weeks after ESWL, and UDCA group were studied
before and 2weeks after starting oral medication Mean
basal EF was significantly reduced in patients but
other parameters were not reduced. In ESlVL group, mean
EF and mean ER at 1day after ESWL were reduced. In 3 of
them, gallbladder was not visualized at all. Two weeks
after ESWL, however, all parameters were recoverd to
basal level. In UDCA group, all parameters were not
changed significantly during medication. We can
conclude that ESWL has such immediate adverse effect on
gallbladder dynamics as reducing contractility ancl
nonvisuaiization of gallbladder but it has no long-term
effect. |