Post-cholecystectomy pain (abdominal pain after gallbladder removal) is a common clinical problem. More than 700,000 patients undergo cholecystectomy each year in the United States, and at least 10 ...

Santiago Horgan, MD, chief of minimally invasive surgery at UC San Diego Health System, was the first surgeon in the U.S. to remove a gallbladder through a patient’s belly button, according to a UCSD ...

Peter Cotton, MD, a gastroenterologist with the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, is designing a national study to determine which patients are candidates for gall bladder removal ...

After gallbladder removal, digestive changes are common as bile flows directly into the intestines. A temporary diet ...

An AI-controlled robot has autonomously completed a gallbladder removal with “100 percent accuracy.” The procedure, conducted by a team of Johns Hopkins University researchers, demonstrated the power ...

French surgeons successfully removed a woman’s gall bladder through her vagina, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The history of ...

WASHINGTON - Doctors attending Attorney General John Ashcroft found several troublesome gallstones and ordered surgical removal of the Cabinet officer's gallbladder to prevent a recurrence of ...

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