The gallbladder's job is timed release. It holds bile produced by the liver and squeezes it into the small intestine the moment fat enters from a meal. That squeeze is triggered by eating. No meal, no ...

The etiologies of the 56 children with acute pancreatitis are listed in Table 1. The most frequent cause of acute pancreatitis was drugs (30%), followed by biliary disease (29%), idiopathic (12%), ...

Patients with sludge- or microlithiasis-induced acute pancreatitis (AP) had significantly lower rates of pancreaticobiliary complications than those with gallstone-induced AP. "The lower complication ...