Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you've had your gallbladder removed, chances are you were looking for relief: Relief from the sharp upper abdominal pain of a ...

Recovery from gallbladder surgery is usually quick and has few complications. You can live without a gallbladder while making some changes to your diet or lifestyle. Gallbladder removal surgery ...

Gallstones in your bile duct (choledocholithiasis) Gallbladder inflammation (cholecystitis) Large polyps in your gallbladder Inflammation in your pancreas, or pancreatitis, caused by gallstones‌ ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband had his gallbladder removed many years ago. In the past few years, he has had six ERCPs to remove gallstones from his bile duct, as he is still making them. He has been told ...

Your gallbladder is a small organ underneath your liver on your right side. The gallbladder stores and releases a digestive fluid called bile. Sometimes, painful gallstones, inflammation, or infection ...

Pregnant women produce extra progesterone, which puts them at greater risk for gallstones. When the stones become problematic, causing painful attacks, a surgeon may recommend that the diseased ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband's doctor is telling him to have his gallbladder removed because sometimes he has pain in his right side. They did all kind of tests, but he has pain when he drives long ...

If you’ve had a cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal) to treat gallstones or another gallbladder condition, you’re not alone. In fact, more than 1.2 million people in the United States undergo this ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I was diagnosed with Gilbert syndrome after I had a blockage of my common bile duct and became jaundiced. This was three months after I had my gallbladder removed (via an open surgery) ...

PHOENIX -- Delaying gallbladder removal after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) for bile duct stones was linked to a more than 14-fold higher risk of biliary complications within 1 ...