title: Gallbladder dyskinesia: fact or fiction?
abstract: Gallbladder dyskinesia is a functional (motility) disorder of the gallbladder resulting in episodic abdominal pain that, in carefully selected cases, resolves with cholecystectomy. It is a diagnosis of exclusion: several functional and organic disorders have to be excluded, and confounding factors addressed, before a diagnosis of gallbladder dyskinesia can be entertained. The combination of high clinical suspicion and an abnormally low gallbladder ejection fraction on cholecystokinin stimulated-cholescintigraphy predict benefit from removing the gallbladder.
authors.affiliation: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Nutrition Building, Floor E, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA. gfrancis@wfubmc.edu
authors.forename: Geoffrey
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Francis
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Baillie
mesh_terms: D001657:Biliary Dyskinesia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D006801:Humans