Naotaka Fujita, Ichiro Yasuda, Itaru Endo, Hiroyuki Isayama, Takuji Iwashita, Toshiharu Ueki, Kenichiro Uemura, Akiko Umezawa, Akio Katanuma, Yu Katayose, Yutaka Suzuki, Junichi Shoda, Toshio Tsuyuguchi, Toshifumi Wakai, Kazuo Inui, Michiaki Unno, Yoshifumi Takeyama, Takao Itoi, Kazuhiko Koike, Satoshi Mochida
The Japanese Society of Gastroenterology first published evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for cholelithiasis in 2010, followed by a revision in 2016. Currently, the revised third edition was published to reflect recent evidence on the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of cholelithiasis conforming to the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) system. Following this revision, the present English version of the guidelines was updated and published herein. The clinical questions (CQ) in the previous version were reviewed and rearranged into three newly divided categories: background questions (BQ) dealing with basic background knowledge, CQ, and future research questions (FRQ), which refer to issues that require further accumulation of evidence...
September 2023: Journal of Gastroenterology