Heap of stones: An unusual cause for biliary colic and elevated liver function tests
Henning Wittenburg
, Volker Keim, Albrecht Hoffmeister
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University Hospital of Leipzig, Department of Internal Medicine, Neurology and Dermatology, Division of Gastroenterology and Rheumatology, Liebigstrasse 20, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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The cholangiogram showed trifurcation of the hilus and confirmed dilatation of the bile ducts filled with multiple small gallstones (B, arrowheads). C. Multiple small, round and yellow calculi consistent with intrahepatic cholesterol gallstones were removed from the intrahepatic bile ducts via ERCP. D. Cholangiogram after complete removal of intrahepatic gallstones.</p>" ] ] ] "textoCompleto" => "<span class="elsevierStyleSections"><span id="s0005" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="st0015">Case Report</span><p id="p0005" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A 40-year old woman presented to our emergency department due to recurrent abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant with no fever or jaundice consistent with biliary colics. A cholecystectomy for symptomatic cholecystolithiasis was performed four years previously. Besides hypothyroidism, the past medical history was unremarkable. Physical exam revealed adiposity grade 1 (BMI 32) and tenderness in the right upper quadrant. Liver function tests (ASAT, ALAT, GGT, AP, total bilirubin) were slightly elevated. Abdominal ultrasound showed multiple small hyperechoic foci with complete acoustic shadows in the ventral segments of the right liver lobe (<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#f0005">Figure 1A</a>, arrows). These finding were confirmed on MRCP (not shown). For removal of symptomatic intrahepatic gallstones, an ERCP was performed (<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#f0005">Figure 1B</a>). The cholangiogram showed trifurcation of the hilus and confirmed dilatation of the bile ducts filled with multiple intraductalar small calculi in liver segment V only (<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#f0005">Figure 1B</a>, arrowheads). Employing dormia baskets and stone extraction balloons, gallstones were removed from the intrahepatic bile ducts. Gross appearance of multiple small, round, white to yellowish calculi suggested cholesterol gallstones (<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#f0005">Figure 1C</a>). Finally, following repeated ERCPs, the intrahepatic gallstones were completely removed (<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#f0005">Figure 1D</a>). The patient’s symptoms revolved.</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="f0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="p0010" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The location of the calculi in this patient suggested primary intrahepatic cholesterol gallstones rather than secondary intrahepatic stones due to migration from the gallbladder. Variation of the anatomy of the bile ducts as a cause for intrahepatic cholelithiasis is controversial. However, some authors explain the predominance of intrahepatic gallstones in the left liver lobe with impaired bile flow due to the acute angle of the left hepatic duct. In our case, trifurcation of the hilus with an arcuated course of the segmental duct may have predisposed to primary intrahepatic stone formation in liver segment V only.</p><p id="p0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The young age of the patient with cholelithiasis, recurrence of symptoms after cholecystectomy and intrahepatic calculi suggested the low phospholipid associated cholelithiasis (LPAC) syndrome.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> Intrahepatic bile ducts filled with gallstones but no stricture as we found in our patient was recently described as one phenotype of the LPAC syndrome.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> In patients with LPAC, the presumed low phospholipid concentration in bile is due to mutations of the <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">ABCB4</span> gene that encodes the phospholipid transporter MDR3 that is located on the canalicular membrane of hepatocytes and transport phospholipids into bile. 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