Main description:

This volume is a single resource highlighting multidisciplinary options available to clinicians for the management of common bile duct stones. The text highlights management, diagnosis, treatment options, and complications from the perspective of surgeons, gastroenterologists, and interventional radiologists, providing a truly multidisciplinary approach to treatment of these patients. By providing the scope of the problem to clinicians, the text increases awareness such that testing or referral to the most appropriate specialist (whether it be a gastroenterologist, surgeon or radiologist) can be initiated.

Providing surgeons, gastroenterologists and radiologists alike access to the most current treatment paradigms in their field, Multidisciplinary Management of Common Bile Duct Stones empowers healthcare providers with interdisciplinary knowledge and options available to patients in management of their common bile duct stones.

Contents:

1 Historical Perspective and Treatments for Common Bile Duct Stones
Jeffrey W. Hazey

2 Common Bile Duct Stones: Health Care Problem and Incidence
Joshua S. Winder and Eric M. Pauli

3 Bile Duct Stones: Making the Radiologic Diagnosis
Sunny Jaiswal and Suresh Chamarthi

4 Making the Diagnosis: Gastroenterology
Joshua R. Peck, Nicholas Latchana, Samer El-Dika, and Sheetal Sharma

5 Making the Diagnosis: Surgery; a Rational Approach to the Patient with Suspected CBD Stones
Robert D. Fanelli

6 Percutaneous Biliary Access: Considerations, Techniques, and Complications
Bill S. Majdalany and James Spain

7 Special Considerations for the Gastroenterologist
Veeral M. Oza and Marty M. Meyer

8 Special Considerations for the Surgeon
Michael Paul Meara

9 Percutaneous Methods of Common Bile Duct Stone Retrieval
Joshua D. Dowell, Jeffrey Weinstein, Annie Lim, and Gregory E. Guy

10 Gastroenterologic Treatment and Outcomes
Royce Groce and Mohammad Shakhatreh

11 Surgical Treatment and Outcomes
Ashwini Kumar and Jose M. Martinez

12 Surgical Procedures to Prevent Recurrence
Edward L. Jones

13 Management of Medical Complications of Gallstone Disease
Victorio Pidlaoan and Somashekar G. Krishna

14 Management of Surgical Complications
Helmi Khadra, Terence Jackson, and Jeffrey Marks

15 Special Considerations: Management of Common Bile Duct Stones in the Bariatric Patient
Vimal K. Narula and Teresa S. Jones

16 Management of Choledocholithiasis in the Cirrhotic Patient
Eliza W. Beal and Sylvester M. Black

17 Nonprocedural Management of Common Bile Duct Stones
Reshi C. Kanuru and Edward Levine