Gallstones Treatment
Gallstones removal
Gallstones surgery options
Gallstones require a different treatment, depending on whether or not they cause discomfort. Gallstones cause no symptoms, treatment is not necessary. It is then not necessary to remove the gallstones. On the other hand, symptoms occur, such as gallstones pain, there is a standard treatment to remove the gall stones with the gallbladder (cholecystectomy). But nowadays in most cases, for this purpose, a laparoscopic surgery is more frequently applied, with fiberoptic laparoscope inserted through small incisions. It is not a big intervention from outside (so-called "keyhole surgery"). The open cholecystectomy was ousted in the last years by this minimally invasive therapy. After a cholecystectomy including gallbladder removal, the disease heals completely in the vast majority of cases. Only in rare cases, new gallstones occur.
Cholecystectomy
Cholecystectomy is the only meaningful if the gallstones cause symptoms. To remove the gallbladder preventively is not useful. After cholecystectomy, patients will lack the storage organ for the bile. Thereby little bile flows continuously into the small intestine, after the gallstones with gallbladder have been removed. But there are no large quantities.
Article From: Gallstonessymptoms.net
Created: 2011-12-02
Last update: 2012-02-09