For five years, my patient has been experiencing several episodes a year of what appears to be biliary colic — severe epigastric and right-upper-quadrant abdominal pain that begins shortly after ...

Adolescents and teens experience biliary side effects after weight-loss surgery at about the same rate as adults. However, in younger patients, the symptoms are more likely to manifest as pancreatic ...

The presence of a gravid uterus in a woman with acute biliary symptoms poses several unique challenges since the underlying disease and/or its various treatments can adversely affect both mother and ...

The clinical entity remains essentially as described by Sandblom 1: a history of trauma, with pain simulating biliary colic, followed by gastrointestinal hemorrhage. If the biliary ducts become ...

Background A 34-year-old Hispanic woman at 34 weeks' gestation presented with upper-abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting of 1 day's duration. She had no active medical problems and had undergone two ...

Gallstone disease, ranging from biliary colic to cholecystitis, represents a highly prevalent symptomatic gastrointestinal disorder secondary to gallstone obstruction, affecting up to 25% of adults in ...

Gallstones are more common in patients with acromegaly than in the general population. Somatostatin analogs—the gold standard medical treatment for patients with acromegaly—are associated with a ...

THE HSE have issued an urgent warning over a condition that causes ‘sudden, severe abdominal pain’. Gallstones are formed in the gallbladder from precipitated bile components. Most gallstones cause no ...

A 40-year-old woman attends to discuss her recent ultrasound report. She had previously attended with episodes of epigastric and right subcostal colicky pains, which had sounded like biliary colic. In ...

THERE have been few fundamental contributions to the diagnosis and management of biliary-tract disease in recent years, but a current evaluation of the subject is justified in view of the large number ...

Gallstones are more common than you think — and often triggered by everyday habits. Here’s why they form, how to spot the symptoms, and when surgery becomes necessary (Image: Pexels) Cholelithiasis, ...