Research Article
Ultrasonographic Study of Gallbladder Wall Thickness and Emptying in Cirrhotic Patients without Gallstones
Table 1
Demographic and clinical characteristics of cirrhotic patients and healthy controls.
| | Healthy controls | Cirrhotic patients |
| Etiology | — | Total | Viral | Alcoholic | Alcoholic/viral | Autoimmune | Subjects n (%) | 20 (100%) | 23 (100%) | 16 (69.6%) | 4 (17.4%) | 2 (8.7%) | 1 (4.3%) | Sex | 10 M–10 F | 13 M–10 F | 7 M–9 F | 4 M–0 F | 2 M–0 F | 0 M–1 F | Age () | | | | | | 66 | Albumin g/dL () | | | | | | 3.1 |
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