Gallbladder

An Alton surgeon is being sued by a woman who claims her liver was damaged during a gall bladder operation in 2006. Sheila Ann Calopietro claims Maudie Miller, M.D, performed an endoscopic procedure to remove her gall bladder on March 6, 2006, but allegedly failed to order pre-operative tests...  

NEW DELHI * The Dalai Lama was recovering in a New Delhi hospital yesterday after successful surgery to remove gallstones, aides said, adding that the Tibetan spiritual leader should be discharged within days.  

USA October 7, 2008 -- When former medical technician Allen Miller heard that gallbladder surgery was the solution to the abdominal pain he'd endured for two months, his resentment at being classified as ...  

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, who was admitted to the Sir Ganga Ram hospital in New Delhi Thursday after severe abdominal pain, underwent an operation for removal of gallbladder stones Friday morning, ...  

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Over 20 million Americans have gallblader disease. About one million new cases of gallbladder disease are diagnosed annually.  

The Dalai Lama was Friday operated on to remove gallbladder stones in the Indian capital of Delhi, according to the Tibetan spiritual leader's spokesman.  

The gallbladder is a small sac near the liver that stores bile, a fluid that helps the body digest fats.  

In a first for the St. Louis region, surgeons at Washington University are removing patients' gallbladders using a single, small incision in the bellybutton that leaves a barely visible scar.  

After resident physicians' work hours were limited to 80 hours each week, fewer patients undergoing gallbladder surgery at one major public teaching hospital suffered injuries to their bile ducts of other complications, according to an article released on September 15, 2008 in the Archives of...  

Thousands of people each year will try a simple gallbladder flush. And thousands of gallstone sufferers will naturally pass their gallstones with this simple flush.  

Fewer patients undergoing gallbladder surgery at one major public teaching hospital sustained injuries to their bile ducts or other complications after resident physicians' work hours were limited to 80 per week, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA...  

In a study of over 40,000 runners, body mass index (BMI) was positively related to the risk of gallbladder disease, while running speed and distance and cardiorespiratory fitness were inversely tied to the risk.  

GBC has very poor prognosis. Conventional surgery is considered the most effective treatment, but many cases are inoperable at the time of diagnosis. More recently, chemotherapy has shown activity in gallbladder cancer. However, no generally accepted standard chemotherapy for advanced, non...  

Dear Dr. Gott: The letter from the 36-year-old man who suffered so many problems since his gallbladder surgery sounds exactly like what I have experienced in the 10 years since my gallbladder was removed.