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.

Acute cholecystitis, characterised by the sudden inflammation of the gallbladder, is a clinically significant condition that demands swift diagnostic and therapeutic intervention. Laparoscopic ...

Is early or delayed laparoscopic surgery the preferred treatment option for managing acute cholecystitis? The authors performed a meta-analysis based on 16 reports with a total of 809 patients treated ...

Just as laparoscopic surgery reduced the overall burden of surgery, it has been expected that using a single port for this commonly performed operation would result in further improvement. However, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery, or NOTES, transvaginal cholecystectomy was shown to be ...

Rates of bile duct injury a year after gallbladder removal surgery were lower with laparoscopic procedures than robotic-assisted ones, a retrospective study of Medicare beneficiaries found.

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a minimally invasive procedure for gallbladder removal, and one of the most common surgical procedures worldwide. While the procedure has a very high success rate, 1 in ...

People might attribute midnight bouts of chest pain or waves of nausea to food poisoning, stress or a stubborn case of indigestion, but Rutgers Health researchers suggest that knowing your family's ...

Gallbladder surgery typically results in three or four small scars on your abdomen. These may disappear eventually, but you can take steps to help the healing process and minimize their appearance.