Postcholecystectomy diarrhea
D. F. Hutcheon, T. M. Bayless and T. R. Gadacz
Diarrhea developed in three patients following cholecystectomy. Fecal
bile-acid excretion was elevated in the two patients for whom it was
measured. All three patients' diarrhea resolved with cholestyramine resin
therapy. This experience suggests that gallbladder removal may lead to a
bile-acid-mediated diarrhea in some patients, and that this condition
appears to respond to cholestyramine therapy.
