[The characteristics of the course of Yersinia hepatitis in cholelithiasis patients]

The paper is concerned with a clinical description of yersiniosis in 12 women who suffered from manifest or uneventful cholelithiasis. The disease started by an attack of biliary colic. The clinical symptomatology was noticed to run in stages during which the signs of calculous cholecystitis vanished while the symptoms of hepatitis persisted. In the acute period, the conservative treatment of the patients was carried out by the infectionist jointly with the surgeon, followed by dispensary observation lasting 1 to 3 months until complete and stable normalization of aminotranferase activity. The outcomes were favourable.