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Gallstone Disease in Pregnancy

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The management of symptomatic gallstones during pregnancy is difficult, as there is limited evidence to support clinical decision making. Published guidelines exist with recommendations based on the best evidence available [1]. Other authors have attempted to do complex decision making analysis and modelling to determine the best care [2]; nonetheless, there is very little comparative data. Most of the data comes from reported case series with only 277 cases of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in pregnancy reported until 2007 [2]. Despite this, symptomatic gallstones are the second most frequent acute presentation in pregnant women, after acute appendicitis (Kant, [3]). However, the incidence is still low, with 0.05–0.8% of all pregnancies developing symptomatic gall stones [4–7].

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    Guy D. Eslick

  3. Divisional Director of Surgery, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia

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Cox, M.R. (2018). Gallstone Disease in Pregnancy. In: Cox, M., Eslick, G., Padbury, R. (eds) The Management of Gallstone Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63884-3_12

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