Abstract

DELGADO DELGADO, Arturo; ELIZECHEA HERNANDEZ, Angel; PACHECO PUCHADES, Aleida  and  DIAZ PEREZ, Xiomara. Trastornos motores del sistema biliar en la infancia: Presentación de 5 pacientes. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 1997, vol.69, n.1, pp.48-55. ISSN 0034-7531.

The recurrent abdominal pain is very common in childhood, and on some ocassions it is not possible to find the cause. To make clear at least in part this problem, it was decided to study the motor disorders of the biliary tract in childhood as the possible causes of these clinical pictures. A prospective study was conducted at the "San Miguel del Padrón" Pediatric Teaching Hospital from 1989 to 1994 with all those children suffering from recurrent abdominal pain and with no specific cause. Ultrasonography and oral cholecystography with timed emptying were used and 5 patients were found on whom these diagnoses could be made. The most frequent was the hypertonic and hypercinetic gallbladder in 2 patients who underwent cholecystectomy; the rest had a satisfactory evolution without surgical procedure. According to the results obtained, it is suggested that these disorders must be taken into account in the study of patients with recurrent abdominal pain.

Keywords : BILIARY DISKINESIA [diagnosis]; BILIARY DISKINESIA [therapy]; ABDOMINAL PAIN [etiology]; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTOGRAPHY; GALLBLADDER EMPTYING; GALLBLADDER DISEASES.