美国旧金山消息:明尼苏达罗彻斯特梅奥诊所的研究人员使用全身麻醉剂成功地溶解了有症状病人的胆固醇胆石。内科教授Johnson Thistle和同事治疗了27名病人,通过放入胆囊的经皮经肝导管给病人滴注甲基特丁乙醚(methyl tert-butylether,MTBE)。其中26名病人平均治疗12小时后,胆石至少溶解90％。Thistle在此间举行的年度消化疾病周会上说:“治疗1～2天甚至大的和多发性结石也能溶解。” SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Researchers at the Rochester Mayo Clinic in Minnesota successfully dissolved cholesterol gallstones in symptomatic patients using general anesthetics. The medical professor Johnson Thistle and colleagues treated 27 patients and instilled methyl tert-butylether (MTBE) into the gallbladder through the transcatheter hepatic duct. Among the 26 patients treated for an average of 12 hours, gallstones dissolved at least 90%. Thistle at the annual digestive disease week held here said: “The treatment of 1 to 2 days and even large and multiple stones can dissolve.”