Is it possible to predict the clinical course of gallstone disease?
Efficient gallbladder motility is present in symptomatic GS and it represents a risk factor for biliary pain development while sluggish motility seems to play a protective role. Thus, gallbladder motility evaluation is a useful diagnostic tool in clinical decision making for GS; in symptomatic GS, a progressive reduction of gallbladder motility could suggest a "wait and see" management policy instead of an immediate surgical approach.
Our results suggested that heparanase might be an important factor in the pathogenesis of severe preeclampsia.