Your gallbladder helps your body break down and store a substance called bile, which helps digest fats. While the gallbladder has a job in the digestion process, it’s not essential for your overall ...

Laparoscopic cholecystectomies (surgical removal of the gallbladder) has been recommended by experts for pediatric patients suffering from gallstones and other gallbladder diseases. "We are refining ...

The most common treatment for gallstones is removing your gallbladder. The gallbladder is not an essential organ, which means that you can live normally without one. It is a storage organ for bile.

Q. I recently had an ultrasound of my gallbladder revealing thickened walls with multiple stones. The only symptom I have is stomach pain on the rare occasion I eat greasy foods. My liver enzymes are ...

Gallstones can be problematic and painful if left untreated. One way to treat the problem is undergoing laparoscopy gallbladder removal. Here's everything you know about the treatment. The gallbladder ...

Cholecystectomy or surgery to remove the gallbladder is the usual treatment for symptomatic gallstones. Dr Sunny Agarwal explains the surgery here. Gallstones are hard, pebble-like pieces of material ...

Early diagnosis and modern laparoscopic surgery can prevent serious complications, says Dr Sharath Chandra Kaushik ...

SMS hospitalJaipur: The city’s Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital successfully performed a rare, high-risk laparoscopic surgery on a 106-year-old woman, removing her gallbladder and extracting stones from ...

Original Medicare (parts A and B) covers gallbladder removal surgery (cholecystectomy) if a doctor or another healthcare professional deems it medically necessary. Medicare Part A covers open ...

Gallstones are a common digestive system disease. To assess the effects of laparoscopic and choledochoscopic gallbladder-preserving cholecystolithotomy on the levels of operation indicators, ...