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 ...

Gallbladder removal surgery rarely leads to hormonal imbalance, but this is one potential risk. After gallbladder removal surgery (cholecystectomy), your body might feel a little off. You might be ...

If someone is hospitalized for a painful gallbladder attack, new research suggests that surgery probably shouldn't wait. Doctors may typically hold off on operating until gallbladder inflammation has ...

June 5 (UPI) --Gall bladder removal could lower cardiovascular disease risk -- and stroke risk -- for gallstone patients, researchers in Taiwan report. Stroke risk fell by 36 percent after people with ...

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 ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

Surgery for gallbladder cancer can be successful at removing cancer cells, particularly when doctors diagnose the cancer at an early stage and the person is in otherwise good health. Gallbladder ...

Rates of bile duct injury a year after gallbladder removal surgery were lower with laparoscopic procedures than robotic-assisted ones, a retrospective study of Medicare beneficiaries found.

Doctors recommend that people undergoing gallbladder removal modify their diet in the weeks following surgery. Changes include avoiding fatty, greasy, or spicy foods and eating lean meat, low fat ...

Robots trained by watching expert surgeons can now perform complex operations with little human help. This breakthrough is happening right now. For the first time, an autonomous surgical robot ...

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 ...