[Antipyrine test in the diagnosis of chronic cholecystitis]. / Antipirinovyi test v diagnostike khronicheskogo kholetsistita.

Functional inhibition of the drug liver metabolism seems to start at early subclinical stages of cholecystitis. Antipyrine++ level in the initial saliva sample drops significantly and continues to change with growing structural impairment of the biliary system in progression of chronic noncalculous cholecystitis into calculous one.