ORNITHOCHOLANIC ACIDS AND CHOLELITHIASIS IN MAN.
Ornithocholanic acids and small soft gall stones were found in the bile of patients from which Klebsiella pneumoniae was also isolated. Cholelithiasis may be initiated by metabolic disturbances in the conjugation of bile acids in liver tissue and the subsequent precipitation of cholesterol and bile pigment.
D001646:Bile; D001647:Bile Acids and Salts; D002769:Cholelithiasis; D002784:Cholesterol; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections; D006801:Humans; D007709:Klebsiella; D008099:Liver; D008297:Male; D011014:Pneumonia; D012492:Salts
D001647:Bile Acids and Salts; D012492:Salts; D002784:Cholesterol
BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; CHOLELITHIASIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA; PNEUMONIA