title: [Study on biliary motility in cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study biliary motility in cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension and analyze the relationship between these biliary motility and the degree of liver function.
  
  
  METHODS
  Biliary motility function was detected in 40 patients with portal hypertension and 30 normal controls by using quantitative hepatobiliary scintigraphy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The rate of dysfunction of gallbladder in cirrhotic patients was 52.5%, and it was significantly higher than that in controls (chi(2)=11.92, P<0.01). Compared with the normal controls, the bile's transit in biliary duct of cirrhotic patients was slower (t=11.09, P<0.01), the time of gallbladder visualization became longer (t=5.65, P<0.01), and the gallbladder emptying time was markedly prolonged (t=2.10, P<0.05). A correlation was also seen between these biliary motility and the degree of liver function.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension often have abnormal motility of gallbladder and biliary duct.
authors.affiliation: Department of gastroenterology, The Second Hospital of Xi'an Medical University, Xi'an 710004, China.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001652:Bile Ducts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging