Although surgery is a common treatment for patients diagnosed with biliary dyskinesia, or functional gallbladder disorder, a West Virginia University medical researcher is questioning why the practice ...

Although surgery is a common treatment for patients diagnosed with biliary dyskinesia, or functional gallbladder disorder, a medical researcher is questioning why the practice has become so widespread ...

The study will focus on patients who do not have gallstones, but suffer from functional gallbladder disorder. Dr. Cotton is applying for a $1.5 million, three-year grant from the National Institutes ...

Approximately 700,000 patients in the United States have their gallbladder removed every year. Last July, 59-year-old Cindy Robinson was one of them. But unlike most other gallbladder surgery ...

A 44-year-old woman with a history of endometriosis who underwent total abdominal hysterectomy/bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and appendectomy complains of intermittent right upper-quadrant pain of 3 ...

IT has been known for some time that after an attack of acute pancreatitis an intrinsically "normal" gall bladder may not function temporarily (as evidenced by cholecystography). 1 As far as we are ...

Here you can read about the foods that trigger gallbladder symptoms. Gallbladder is a very important organ, located on the right side of your abdomen, near the liver. This small organ has a very ...

Gallbladder surgeries have increased in recent years for biliary dyskinesia, or functional gallbladder disorder, but Dr. Bryan Richmond with WVU questions whether these surgeries are necessary in new ...