Sometimes it is hard to know what is going on inside your body. Though, stomach pain and/or discomfort can be alarming but ...

You likely already know that gallstones can be notoriously painful and disproportionately affect women. But if you're ...

For five years, my patient has been experiencing several episodes a year of what appears to be biliary colic — severe epigastric and right-upper-quadrant abdominal pain that begins shortly after ...

Most won’t have ­symptoms or need treatment, but for some the pain is so severe it can be mistaken for a heart attack. So it’s vital to know what you’re dealing with and there are ­official new ...

Q: My mom had a gallstone that caused her to turn yellow and get sick, but the doctors thought surgery was too risky and recommended removing the stone with an endoscope. Why isn’t this done for ...

The presence of a gravid uterus in a woman with acute biliary symptoms poses several unique challenges since the underlying disease and/or its various treatments can adversely affect both mother and ...

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Background A 34-year-old Hispanic woman at 34 weeks' gestation presented with upper-abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting of 1 day's duration. She had no active medical problems and had undergone two ...

Adolescents and teens experience biliary side effects after weight-loss surgery at about the same rate as adults. However, in younger patients, the symptoms are more likely to manifest as pancreatic ...

An otherwise healthy 45-year-old woman presented with recurrent attacks of biliary colic after cholecystectomy 5 months earlier. Although they were milder than before the surgery, symptoms did not ...

Gallstones are more common in patients with acromegaly than in the general population. Somatostatin analogs—the gold standard medical treatment for patients with acromegaly—are associated with a ...