Dear Dr. Roach: My husband had his gallbladder removed many years ago. In the past few years, he has had six ERCPs to remove gallstones from his bile duct, as he is still making them. He has been told ...
Rising use of weight loss injections may be linked to more gallbladder surgeries. Experts urge caution, deeper research and ...
Stabbing pain after gallbladder removal can signal a complication. Examples of these include bile leakage or bile duct injury, retained gallstones, or post-cholecystectomy syndrome. The gallbladder is ...
Last year, there was a 15% annual increase in the operations and surgeons want more research.
PHOENIX -- Delaying gallbladder removal after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) for bile duct stones was linked to a more than 14-fold higher risk of biliary complications within 1 ...
Among patients with possible common duct stones, removal of the gall bladder, compared with endoscopic assessment of the common duct followed by gall bladder removal, resulted in a shorter length of ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband’s doctor is telling him to have his gallbladder removed because sometimes he has pain in his right side. They did all kind of tests, but he has pain when he drives long ...
Earlier this month, as many as 345 gallstones were removed from a 51-year-old woman's body via a laparoscopic cholecystectomy conducted by surgeons at Bengaluru's Aster RV Hospital. According to Mayo ...
Pain in the upper right side or middle of the abdomen can indicate various health problems, but one of them is the presence of gallstones. The pain is often described as a sudden, intense, and ...