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gallstone: see gall bladder gall bladder, small pear-shaped sac that stores and concentrates bile . It is connected to the liver (which produces the bile) by the hepatic duct. When food containing fat reaches the small intestine, the hormone cholecystokinin is produced by cells in the ..... Click the link for more information. . gallstoneMass of crystallized substances that forms in the gallbladder. The most common type occurs when the liver secretes bile with too much cholesterol to stay in solution. Liver damage, chronic gallbladder disease, or biliary-tract cancer may predispose one to stone formation. In the gallbladder, stones may cause inflammation or produce no symptoms. A stone obstructing the bile duct causes severe pain (biliary colic). Gallstones usually must be removed with the gallbladder or broken up with ultrasound. In some cases a stone can be treated by giving the patient bile salts, which help redissolve cholesterol. If the gallbladder must be removed, laparoscopy is the method of choice. |
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Very-low-calorie diets are very effective for weight reduction, (127) and the nutritionally adequate formulas used today have fewer associated health problems (eg, gout, cholelithiasis, hair loss) as compared with the VLCD formulas used in the 1970s. The patient's work-up included a normal abdominal computer tomography; abdominal ultrasound showed nonobstructing cholelithiasis. For example, instead of a guideline for the management of gallbladder disease, we may develop a requirement set for the patient between 20 and 50 years old, with symptomatic, radiologically proven cholelithiasis and with no co-existing disease. |
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