Abstract
Seventeen patients with postcholecystectomy pain and nine controls were studied by nonoperative biliary manometry with stimulation of sphincter of Oddi spasm by morphine. The controls remained asymptomatic despite an elevation of bile duct pressure after morphine. In 13 patients with postcholecystectomy pain, morphine induced pain paralleling a pressure rise. Three other patients had pain not paralleling a pressure change, and another showed a pressure rise without pain. None of the controls, four with the parallel pain-pressure change, and one with the discordant pain-pressure correlation were positive at the traditional morphine-Prostigmin test. Endoscopic sphincterotomy provided complete (8), moderate (3), or slight (1) relief of pain to 12 patients with the parallel pain-pressure relationship. Postsphincterotomy manometry showed disappearance of both the pressure elevation and pain induction, and the morphine-Prostigmin test turned negative. It is concluded that morphine-induced bile duct pressure elevation coinciding with pain is diagnostic of sphincter spasm as a cause of postcholecystectomy pain, the morphine-Prostigmin test, although helpful, is less specific and less sensitive in diagnosing sphincter spasm than the manometry, and endoscopic sphincterotomy relieves the pain due to this condition in most cases.
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