A gallbladder attack can cause intense pain, nausea, and digestive distress, often occurring after fatty meals. While some attacks resolve on their own, others may signal a serious blockage or ...

Doctors usually find inflammatory polyps in people who have experienced cholecystitis more than once and in those who have acute biliary colic. Biliary colic can occur when a gallstone blocks the ...

The complications may be caused by inflammation, infection or obstruction. The main symptom of gallstone disease is biliary colic. Biliary colic appears suddenly and builds quickly to a peak. It is a ...

Within the first year of index admission, 40 per cent of the delayed surgery group were readmitted as emergencies with a further attack of acute cholecystitis, in addition to gallbladder colic (9.4 ...

[14] To evaluate biliary strictures of undetermined etiology, the efficacies of variable diagnostic impetuses such as tumor markers, radiological evaluations, endoscopic approaches and tissue ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2007;64(11):1148-1152. Health care organizations around the nation have been working to reduce the use of meperidine as a first-line agent for pain management. Despite the ...

Gallbladder disease refers to any medical condition that affects your gallbladder, a small organ under your liver that stores bile. The most common symptoms of gallbladder disease are abdominal pain, ...