Publikation

[Headache, fever and upper abdominal colic]

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 11.08.1992

Bereiche
PubMed

Zitation
Binek J, Herzog D, Bärlocher K, Hammer B. [Headache, fever and upper abdominal colic]. Schweizerische Rundschau für Medizin Praxis = Revue suisse de médecine Praxis 1992; 81:966-7.
Art
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review (Deutsch)
Zeitschrift
Schweizerische Rundschau für Medizin Praxis = Revue suisse de médecine Praxis 1992; 81
Veröffentlichungsdatum
11.08.1992
ISSN (Druck)
1013-2058
Seiten
966-7
Kurzbeschreibung/Zielsetzung

A nine year old boy who had received Ceftriaxone for one week because of suspected bacterial meningoencephalitis developed colicky abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant two days after termination of Ceftriaxone treatment. Stones in the gallbladder were identified as cause of the abdominal symptoms. Ceftriaxone has been reported to result in so-called pseudo-lithiasis of the gallbladder in approximatively 45% of treated patients, 19% of which developed clinical symptoms. Generally, the gallstones dissolve spontaneously when Ceftriaxone treatment was of short duration.