It is grounded in a comprehensive review of recent studies and clinical guidelines, ensuring that the recommendations are based on current best practices and evidence. The approach to the management of patients with gallstones depends upon the patient's symptoms, imaging test findings, and whether complications are present This topic will review the approach to the patient with uncomplicated gallstones. Proper management of gallstones in elderly patients involves understanding their specific needs, risk factors, treatment choices, and possible complications With personalized strategies and careful monitoring, healthcare providers can ensure safe and effective care for this population. This paper reviews the evaluation and treatment of gallstones, common bile duct stones, biliary dyskinesia, gallbladder polyps, and gallbladder cancer.
Cholelithiasis, or gallstones, is one of the most common and costly of all the gastrointestinal diseases The incidence of gallstones increases with age. Ags guidelines, recommendations, and position statements are always free to ags members and available to the wider community of geriatrics healthcare professionals In this review, we focus on gallstone diseases, including cholelithiasis, cholecystitis, choledocholithiasis, with and without cholangitis, and malignant biliary strictures, far and away the most common disorders of the biliary tree affecting the aged population. Compared with the management of symptomatic gallstone disease in young patients, management in the elderly is guided by three important considerations.
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