Nestled beneath your liver, the gallbladder is a small organ that stores bile, a green-yellow liquid that helps your digestive system. However, when bile ducts become obstructed, often by a gallstone, ...

Abdominal pain associated with gallstones does not always subside after the gallbladder is removed (cholecystectomy). Even five years after surgery, one-third of patients still experience persisting ...

The next time you complain of gastric pain, think twice before dismissing it offhand. That sporadic pain in the centre of your upper central abdomen, which seems to get worse at times, could be a ...

Stabbing pain after gallbladder removal can signal a complication. Examples of these include bile leakage or bile duct injury, retained gallstones, or post-cholecystectomy syndrome. The gallbladder is ...

A 42-year-old man presented to a hospital with 3 months of recurrent, postprandial right upper-quadrant abdominal pain. The symptoms occurred only after fatty meals. Gallbladder-focused ...

The only time you think of your gallbladder is when you have gallstones. They can cause pain no matter what the size—whether it's the size of a grain of sand or a golf ball. Some people even ...

When we talk about stones forming inside the body, we often talk about two types of stones - one is kidney stone, and the other is gallbladder stone. While both sound similar, and indeed are to a ...