The gallbladder is a small, pear-shaped organ in the upper-right abdomen. It stores and releases bile, which is a liquid the liver produces, to support digestion by helping to break down fats. The ...
For five years, my patient has been experiencing several episodes a year of what appears to be biliary colic — severe epigastric and right-upper-quadrant abdominal pain that begins shortly after ...
IT has been known for some time that after an attack of acute pancreatitis an intrinsically "normal" gall bladder may not function temporarily (as evidenced by cholecystography). 1 As far as we are ...
Calculous cholecystitis is a gallbladder inflammation that occurs due to the presence of gallstones (cholelithiasis). These gallstones can block the cystic duct, the channel through which bile flows ...
The gallbladder acts as a storage reservoir for bile, a fluid essential for breaking down dietary fats. Biliary colic often strikes after fatty meals when the organ contracts against a blockage. Pain ...
The pathogenesis of cholesterol gallstone disease (CGD) has long been an enigma. During the first half of the last century, cholelithiasis was regarded to be due to gallbladder inflammatory disease, ...
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