Surgical treatment for older adults with acute cholecystitis was associated with reduced readmissions and emergency ...

The gallbladder plays an important role in digestion but hasn’t received much attention in medical research. However, that’s starting to change. With advances in stem cell technology, scientists can ...

New research shows that platelet count-related ratios, when combined with SOFA scores, can accurately predict severity in biliary bloodstream infections caused by E. coli and K. pneumoniae.

Most of the cases where you feel stuffy or pain that seems to be pressing hard on your solar plexus or right upper abdomen ...

A Bicester woman who died last year from a gallbladder infection had attended the GP a week before and been misdiagnosed, an inquest has heard.

Researchers have identified in a new study that patients with renal failure undergoing chronic kidney replacement therapy ...

Other less common symptoms are: Epiploic appendagitis has symptoms that mimic other conditions that can cause severe lower abdominal pain—such as appendicitis, diverticulitis, or cholecystitis ( ...

Introduction On table cholangiogram (OTC) is routinely done in patients with deranged liver function tests at the time of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the setting of acute cholecystitis to rule out ...

Acute cholecystitis is caused primarily by gallbladder lithiasis and presents commonly with right upper quadrant pain. It has been reported that acalculous cholecystitis accounts for only ...

Rapid weight loss may also contribute to gallbladder-related conditions like gallstones (cholelithiasis) and gallbladder inflammation (cholecystitis). They are essentially different drugs. But of them ...

Story continues below this ad She added that rapid weight loss may also contribute to gallbladder-related conditions like gallstones (cholelithiasis) and gallbladder inflammation (cholecystitis).