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Review article: bile acid therapy
Author(s) -
LANZINI A.,
NORTHFIELD T. C.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
alimentary pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.308
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1365-2036
pISSN - 0269-2813
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2036.1990.tb00444.x
Subject(s) - medicine , lithotripsy , ursodeoxycholic acid , bile acid , extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy , cirrhosis , gastroenterology , primary biliary cirrhosis , intensive care medicine , general surgery , surgery
SUMMARY Over the past 3 years there has been a renewed interest in bile acid therapy not only because of the promising results obtained by combining this therapy with extracorporeal shock‐wave lithotripsy for rapid gallstone dissolution, but also because of its novel use as a treatment for primary biliary cirrhosis. This article reviews the use of bile acids for both these indications.