title: [Efficacy of balneotherapy in cholelithiasis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess therapeutic efficacy of mineral water Uvinskaya at a prestone stage of cholelithiasis.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 135 cholelithiasis patients entered the trial. Of them 57 patients had a prestone stage and 78--stone stage of the disease. The stages were verified by clinical data, findings of dynamic hepatobiliscintigraphy, biochemical bile tests, anatomoemission spectroscopy with induction-bound plasma.
  
  
  RESULTS
  57 patients at prestone stage of cholelithiasis received balneotherapy with mineral water Uvinskaya. The treatment relieved pain syndrome, dyspeptic symptoms, enhanced absorption-excretion function of the liver, prolonged the time of maximal gall-bladder filling, shortened radiopharmaceutical half-life in the gall-bladder, raised the level of trace elements (magnesium, iron, potassium) in the bile, improved gall-bladder contraction, lithogenic bile characteristics.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Mineral water Uvinskaya has a positive effect in a physical-chemical stage of cholelithiasis.
authors: A Iu
authors: AIu
authors: Gorbunov
authors: Ia M
authors: IaM
authors: Vakhrushev
mesh_terms: D001452:Balneology / Q000379:methods*; D001646:Bile / Q000737:chemistry; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008900:Mineral Waters / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D008900:Mineral Waters