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Once the physical-chemical relationships of the bile lipids were crudely understood and patients with gallstones were found to have a relative excess of cholesterol in their bile, it was only a matter of time, and much trial and error, until the appropriate study would demonstrate effective manipulation of bile contents. When I arrived in Rochester, Minnesota in 1969, the trailhead of the path to gallstone dissolution had been found.
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Danzinger, R.G. (1979). Current Management of Uncomplicated Gallstones with Chenodeoxycholic Acid. In: Fisher, M.M., Goresky, C.A., Shaffer, E.A., Strasberg, S.M. (eds) Gallstones. Hepatology, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7064-6_22
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