Background: Whether cholecystectomy is needed after endoscopic clearance of common bile duct stones has been debated intensely in the past. A recent Cochrane review has concluded that prophylactic cholecystectom
As your gut uses a high amount of energy for digestion, that is why you might feel tired after eating a big meal. When you exercise exactly opposite happens. Now your muscles demand high energy and the brain now sends message to heart to increase its blood flow towards muscles to make th...
Bile is a yellow-green fluid that has two functions. The first is to break down fats when food is digested. The second is to carry waste away from your digestive system. Bile contains a salt component that breaks down fat, absorbs it, and moves it through your digestive system and into ...
Different surgical methods are used to treat gallbladder diseases. The following are a few recommended surgeries for gallbladder treatment: Cholecystectomy-In this procedure, the gallbladder is completely removed as one does not need it for food digestion. Laparoscopic or open cholecystectomy technique ...
After a meal, the gall bladder releases stored bile, especially if the meal contains fat. People who have their gall bladder removed (cholecystectomy) can usually still eat moderate amounts of fat, since the flow of bile continues directly from the liver into the duodenum. ...
It usually takes longer to heal through the cholecystectomy process as the incision made is larger. 2. Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) Mostly referred as ERCP, this process is conducted when gallstones have come out of the gallbladder and invaded the bile duct. The bile duc...
Usually, bile is stored and concentrated in a hollow organ named gallbladder first, and then gets released into the small intestine where it helps to digest lipid molecules that are present in food. But sometimes sediments of bile salts, cholesterol, bilirubin, etc ...
The large intestine is one of the last organs in the digestive system. It primarily functions to absorb water from digested material, solidifying it into feces that can be excreted. Some nutrients are also absorbed in the large intestine.
The gallbladder begins to secrete bile salts into the bile ducts several minutes after the consumption of a meal. This occurs during the time the food in the stomach is soaking in hydrochloric acid (HCL). The HCL causes another chemical messenger, CCK, to bind to special CCK receptor sites...
After she touched it, the pain seemed to linger. By the next morning, she was in full-blown misery. She came in the kitchen bent over with her arm across her abdomen, crying and reaching for some over-the-counter pain relievers.