Tuesday, 25 July 2023

A Case Report on Prenatally Diagnosed Congenital Agenesis of the Gallbladder: Diagnosis and Treatment Efficacy | Chapter 5 | Current Progress in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 4

 This episode reports a case of gallbladder agenesis that was diagnosed in a male baby in the intrauterine period at 26+3 weeks on fetal ultrasonography (USG). This case report will help to manage cases who have no gallbladder. Congenital agenesis of the gallbladder is a rare deformity of the biliary system. The plant structure of the development of gallbladder agenesis is not completely known; deformity during rudimentary development is deliberate its main cause. Although gallbladder agenesis discovered in adults during medical procedure has been stated many times, prenatally recognized gallbladder agenesis has rarely happened reported. In most cases, the gallbladder is visualized on a effect USG performed prenatally or subsequently birth, even if the gallbladder is not visualized once all along prenatal USG. However, the gallbladder of our patient was not visualized in the USG following in position or time birth either. Therefore, a hepatobiliary leaf through and magnetic reverberation cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) were performed to find the gallbladder; nevertheless, the gallbladder was not detected.

Author(s) Details:

Jeong-Suk Kim,

Department of Surgery, Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center, Daegu, South Korea.

Hee-Jung Lee,

Department of Radiology, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, South Korea.

Eun-Jung Koo,

Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, South Korea.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/CPMMR-V4/article/view/11320

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