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Original Source: Gallbladder Dyskinesia: Fact or Fiction?
Gallbladder dyskinesia is a functional (motility) disorder of the gallbladder resulting in episodic abdominal pain that, in carefully selected cases, resolves with cholecystectomy. It is a diagnosis of exclusion: several functional and organic disorders have to be excluded, and confounding factors addressed, before a diagnosis of gallbladder dyskinesia can be entertained. The combination of high clinical suspicion and an abnormally low gallbladder ejection fraction on cholecystokinin stimulated-cholescintig...
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Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders
Tumors of the Gallbladder and Bile Ducts
Hepatology is the study of liver, gallbladder, biliary tree, and pancreas, and diseases associated with them. This includes viral hepatitis, alcohol damage, cirrhosis and cancer. As modern lifestyle...
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7 Tips for Natural Gallbladder Remedies presented by Balanced Health Today
Kahului, HI (PRWEB) December 11, 2012 Gallbladder removal surgery , or cholecystectomy, is one of the most common surgical procedures performed in the US. This surgery completely removes the gallb...
Robotic scarless gallbladder surgery
Surgeons have performed a gallbladder surgery using just one incision, leaving patients without a noticeable scar.
Best to Take Out Gallbladder in Daytime (CME/CE)
ORLANDO (MedPage Today) -- Older patients undergoing surgical gallbladder removal at night were at highest risk for complications, researchers reported here.
Gallbladder surgery risks studied
(Medical Xpress) -- Elderly patients having gallbladder surgery may be more at risk depending on where they are treated.
Most Gallbladder Polyps Benign, but It Still Pays to Follow
A new study finds that even though very few gallbladder polyps become cancerous, surveillance of the polyps can result in a cost saving. Medscape Medical News
Gallbladder Polyp Size Can Guide Treatment (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- The follow-up strategy for patients with gallbladder polyps should be based on the size of the lesions, which can influence progression and malignancy potential, British researchers...
Risk To Elderly Gallbladder Patients Varies Among Hospitals
Elderly patients having gallbladder surgery may be more at risk depending on where they are treated. Researchers who studied 10 years' worth of data for gallbladder removal surgery found that patient...
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Carcinosarcoma of the gallbladder: report of two cases.
Adenocarcinoma is the predominant histological type of carcinoma of the gallbladder, accounting for more than 80% of all gallbladder carcinomas. In contrast, carcinosarcoma of the gallbladder is an ex...
Gallbladder Dyskinesia: Fact or Fiction?
Gallbladder dyskinesia is a functional (motility) disorder of the gallbladder resulting in episodic abdominal pain that, in carefully selected cases, resolves with cholecystectomy. It is a diagnosis o...
Dicer and Drosha are two key enzymes that are involved in the processing of miRNA production. Their expressions in gallbladder cancer have not been investigated. In this study, we studied Dicer and Dr...
Pseudo Gallbladder sign in biliary atresia-an imaging pitfall.
BACKGROUND: Ultrasound (US) is used to identify causes of neonatal cholestasis. We describe a potential sonographic pitfall, the "pseudo gallbladder," in biliary atresia (BA). OBJECTIVE: To describe t...
BACKGROUND: Recently, the clinical application of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) has been expanding to abdominal organs. However, only a few studies on gallbladder diseases have b...
