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Gallbladder Sludge and Lithiasis in an Infant Born to a Morphine User Mother
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Gallbladder Sludge and Lithiasis in an Infant Born to a Morphine User Mother

Reinaldo Figueroa-Colon, Naser Tolaymat and Simon Kao
Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition, Vol.10(2), pp.234-238
02/1990
DOI: 10.1097/00005176-199002000-00015
PMID: 2303975

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Abstract

We report a 3-month-old boy with gallbladder sludge formation and lithiasis. The known associated factors causing cholelithiasis in infancy were not present. We postulate that maternal chronic use of morphine during pregnancy may result in biliary sludge formation in utero in the fetus with progression and manifestation of cholelithiasis at 3-months of age.

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