More than 60 epidemiologic studies have investigated a possible relation between cholecystectomy and colon cancer risk. However, the strength of any association remains uncertain because of the small ...

A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association showed that robotic cholecystectomy (RC) resulted in ...

Each year, 100,000 people visit their doctor with abdominal pain, with approximately 30,000 of them diagnosed with gallstones. The standard treatment for these patients is a laparoscopic ...

Cholecystitis is inflammation of the gallbladder. Doctors usually treat cholecystitis by surgically removing this organ, known as a cholecystectomy. Cholecystitis is inflammation of the gallbladder, ...

Patients with gallstone disease blocking the bile duct (choledochlithiasis) who do not have gall bladder removal in the same hospital admission as endoscopic retrograde pancreatography (ERCP) have as ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Same-admission cholecystectomy was linked to lower risk for recurrent pancreatitis and other complications.

Women on CagriSema lost 25% of their body weight in a post hoc trial analysis, while 79.6% of users had digestive side effects. The drug is not approved. Ice Water, Math Quizzes, and Shocks: The 1948 ...

Robotic-assisted cholecystectomy was associated with more than double the risk for bile duct injury (BDI) requiring operative repair compared with laparoscopic cholecystectomy among Medicare ...

Researchers found that AI models for identifying safe dissection zones in gallbladder surgery rely on tool positions and ...

Abdominal pain associated with gallstones does not always subside after the gallbladder is removed (cholecystectomy). Even five years after surgery, one-third of patients still experience persisting ...