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Vol. 53. Issue 4.
Pages 366-368 (01 October 2000)
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Litiasis biliar transitoria asociada al empleo de ceftriaxona
Ceftriaxone-associated transient biliary lithiasis
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J. Álvarez-Coca González, M. Cebrero García, M.C. Vecilla Rivelles, M. Alonso Cristobo, C. Torrijos Roman*
Servicio de Pediatría. Hospital Universitario Príncipe de Asturias. Alcalá de Henares. Madrid
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La ceftriaxona se elimina en un 40% por vía biliar y, debido a su afinidad por el calcio, puede precipitar y originar una litiasis biliar. Se ha comprobado que el 12-45% de los pacientes que reciben ceftriaxona suelen desarrollar imágenes ecográficas de litiasis biliar, tan precozmente como al segundo día de tratamiento. La colelitiasis suele ser asintomática y desaparece antes de los 2 meses de finalizar la ceftriaxona. Se han descrito algunos casos sintomáticos y, en ocasiones, han precisado tratamiento quirúrgico.

Se presentan cuatro casos de niños, atendidos durante 1999, que desarrollaron colelitiasis asintomática entre el segundo y cuarto día de tratamiento con ceftriaxona. La litiasis biliar se resolvió de forma espontánea entre uno y cuatro meses después de finalizar el tratamiento

Palabras clave:
Ceftriaxona
Colelitiasis
Niños
Key words:
Ceftriaxone
Cholelithiasis
Child

Up to 40% of ceftriaxone is excreted unchanged into the bile and, due to its high calcium-binding affinity, it may form a salt that can provoke biliary lithiasis. Echography revealed that biliary lithiasis was present in 1245% of patients treated with ceftriaxone as early as the second day of treatment. Lithiasis is usually asymptomatic and disappears in less than 2 months. Symptomatic cases and patients requiring cholecystectomy have been described in the literature.

We present four children, evaluated in 1999, who presented asymptomatic cholelithiasis between the second and fourth day of ceftriaxone treatment. Biliary lithiasis was found after 2-4 days of treatment, with resolution of the lithiasis between 1-4 months after the end of therapy

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