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What is the meaning of Cholecystolithiasis?
[ kō′lĭ-sĭs′tō-lĭ-thī′ə-sĭs ] n. The presence of one or more gallstones in the gallbladder.
What is Cholesterolosis?
Cholesterolosis is defined pathologically by the accumulation of lipid (cholesteryl esters and triglyceride) within the gallbladder mucosa. From: Sleisenger and Fordtran’s Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease (Ninth Edition), 2010.
What is a Goblatter?
The gallbladder is a small pouch that sits just under the liver. The gallbladder stores bile produced by the liver. After meals, the gallbladder is empty and flat, like a deflated balloon. Before a meal, the gallbladder may be full of bile and about the size of a small pear.
What is mirizzi?
Mirizzi syndrome is defined as common hepatic duct obstruction caused by extrinsic compression from an impacted stone in the cystic duct or infundibulum of the gallbladder [1-3]. Patients with Mirizzi syndrome can present with jaundice, fever, and right upper quadrant pain.
Which of these is the medical term for the presence of gallstones in the gallbladder or bile ducts?
Cholelithiasis involves the presence of gallstones (see the image below), which are concretions that form in the biliary tract, usually in the gallbladder. Choledocholithiasis refers to the presence of one or more gallstones in the common bile duct (CBD).
Is 1.5 cm gallstone big?
The answer is that there is no normal size when it comes to gallstones. Some patients have anywhere from a few to hundreds of tiny gallstones. Other patients will have a single gallstone as large as 5 cm, although a gallstone of this size is rare.
What is Acalculous?
: not affected with, caused by, or associated with gallstones an acalculous gallbladder acalculous cholecystitis.
What does strawberry gallbladder mean?
Strawberry gallbladder refers to the surface appearance (not shape) of the mucosa of the gallbladder due to multiple small collections of triglycerides and cholesterol esters within the lamina propria of the gallbladder wall (gallbladder wall cholesterolosis).
Can gallstones be removed without removing the gallbladder?
Stones in the common bile duct can be removed without surgery by using a scope. Removal of the gallbladder requires surgery, which is typically done laparoscopically (a minimally invasive surgical procedure).
Can you live without gallbladder?
Living without a gallbladder You can lead a perfectly normal life without a gallbladder. Your liver will still make enough bile to digest your food, but instead of being stored in the gallbladder, it drips continuously into your digestive system.
What does the gallbladder do and what causes gallstones?
There’s too much cholesterol in your bile. Your body needs bile for digestion. It usually dissolves cholesterol.
Are gallstones considered dangerous?
In a rare but dangerous condition that occurs most often in older women, gallstones migrate into the small intestine and block the passageway into the large intestine; symptoms include severe and frequent vomiting.
What are the symptoms of a gall stone?
Gallstones may cause no signs or symptoms. If a gallstone lodges in a duct and causes a blockage, the resulting signs and symptoms may include: Sudden and rapidly intensifying pain in the upper right portion of your abdomen. Sudden and rapidly intensifying pain in the center of your abdomen, just below your breastbone.
What are signs of gallstones?
Minor Symptoms. When the signs of gallstones first appear, they may include indigestion, bloating, nausea, gas, and abdominal pain, which is known as biliary colic.