Gallstone disease may be a red flag for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), a researcher reported. PDAC patients were diagnosed nearly three times more often with gallstone disease compared to ...
Gallstone disease, also known as cholelithiasis,is a very common digestive problem that affects more than 25 million Americans and results in more than 500,000 surgical procedures each year. While ...
Cholelithiasis is increasingly encountered in childhood and adolescence due to the rise in obesity. As in adults, weight loss is presumed to be an important risk factor for cholelithiasis in children, ...
Why has this 70-year-old woman with gallstones had abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting for the past 3 days? That is the diagnostic dilemma faced by Francesco Pata, MD, PhD, of Università della ...
What Are the Symptoms of Gallstones? Gallstones may or may not cause symptoms. In fact, you likely won't know you have them until one gets stuck in one of your ducts, which are the tubes that carry ...
How Do I Know if I Have Gallstones? If your symptoms suggest a gallstone problem, your doctor might first examine your skin for jaundice, and then feel your abdomen to check for tenderness. A blood ...
Pain or pressure in your belly could be from a gallbladder attack. A gallbladder attack is also called a gallstone attack. If gallstones are affecting your gallbladder, you could experience pain in ...
Gallstones have been linked to dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease. Arterial stiffness is an indicator of subclinical atherosclerosis. The aim of this study was to ...
The incidence of gallstones is higher in patients after radical gastrectomy than in the general population. The current literature suggests that this higher incidence is related to gallbladder ...
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Gallstone treatment options: from dietary management to cholecystectomy surgery
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RAMALLAH, West Bank – Yasser Arafat (search) has a large gallstone, a Palestinian hospital official said Tuesday, as the weakened Palestinian leader broke his Ramadan (search) fast and underwent more ...
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