Non-surgical treatments for gallstone disease

Abstract

The steady increase in the incidence of cholelithiasis and its complications, called the slow epidemic of the XXI century, the high frequency of deaths is due to the severity of this disease, the complexity, multicomponent and multi-stage surgical treatment with high economic costs. The incidence of cholelithiasis in the Russian Federation is quite high, and there is a tendency to a progressive increase in the number of patients with cholelithiasis. VS Mayat et al. (1978) call cholelithiasis the second problem in gastroenterology (after peptic ulcer). However, it can be assumed that if the incidence of gallstone disease continues to increase at the same rate as at present, then cholelithiasis will soon become the number one problem.