Symptomatic gallstones in a patient with heart transplantation. a serious and little observed adverse reaction of cyclosporine a
Kleveland, P.M.; Waldum, H.L.
Tidsskrift for den Norske Laegeforening Tidsskrift for Praktisk Medicin Ny Raekke 114(5): 564-566
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0029-2001 PMID: 8209338 Document Number: 430499
A 53 year old male patient developed symptomatic cholelithiasis shortly after a heart transplantation following postinfarction heart failure. The patient was both initially cholecystectomized and later endoscopically treated for recurrent biliary pain and multiple concrements in the choledochus. He did not present any of the known predisposing risk factors for developing biliary stones. The possible role of cyclosporine in inducing biliary stones is discussed.