hepatic and biliary disorders
Cholelithiasis
Prognosis for Cholelithiasis
Patients with asymptomatic gallstones become symptomatic at a rate of about 2% per year ( Prognosis references ). The symptom that develops most commonly is biliary colic rather than a major biliary complication. Once biliary symptoms begin, they are likely to recur; pain returns in 20 to 40% of patients per year, and about 1 to 2% of patients per year develop complications such as 1.European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL): EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of gallstones.J Hepatol65(1):146-181, 2016. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2016.03.005 2.Friedman GD, Raviola CA, Fireman B: Prognosis of gallstones with mild or no symptoms: 25 years of follow-up in a health maintenance organization.J Clin Epidemiol1989;42(2):127-36. doi: 10.1016/0895-4356(89)90086-3 