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June 30, at pm. Only around 20 percent of these stones cause problems, though, according to the World Gastroenterology Organization. Gallstones are solidified particles of substances in the bile. They are made of a "combination of bile salts, cholesterol and bilirubin," said Jordan Knowlton, an advanced registered nurse practitioner at the University of Florida Health Shands Hospital. Gallstones can be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a golf ball, according to The Oregon Clinic.
Knowlton explained that while most gallstones pass on their own, some require a minor procedure or even surgery. According to the Mayo Clinic , factors that contribute to the risk of gallstones include obesity, high-fat or high-cholesterol diets, diabetes and taking medicines with estrogen. Women, people over 60, Native Americans and Mexican-Americans are also at a higher level of risk. Gallstones can cause sudden pain that is called a gallbladder attack, according to the National Institutes of Health NIH.
Gallbladder attacks are usually the result of the gallstone blocking the bile ducts, thereby increasing pressure in the gallbladder. They usually occur soon after eating, especially heavy meals. According to the NIH, they can last from one to several hours or, according to the Mayo Clinic , as little as several minutes. The University of Maryland Medical Center lists the following as symptoms of a gallbladder attack: nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite and pain primarily in the upper right side of the abdomen.
Pain may be acute or dull, and may be accompanied by jaundice. These symptoms can last from 15 minutes to a few hours. The University of California San Francisco Department of Surgery pointed out that the symptoms of a gallbladder attack might be similar to those of a heart attack and other conditions, so it is important to consult a doctor for a correct diagnosis.
Cholecystitis is the most common type of gallbladder disease, and often what medical professionals associate with the phrase.
Knowlton described it as "inflammation of the gallbladder. In addition to upper right abdominal pain, Knowlton said, cholecystitis carries with it a variety of symptoms, "including fever, positive Murphy's sign [pain when the abdominal area is examined], nausea and vomiting. Calculous cholecystitis is the most common type of cholecystitis and accounts for around 95 percent of all cases.
This happens when the cystic duct specifically gets blocked by a gallstone or a type of bile called biliary sludge. According to the NIH , after several attacks of pain, chronic cholecystitis may occur. This involves the gallbladder shrinking and losing its function. Choledocholithiasis is the "presence of at least one gallstone in the common bile duct," according to Penn Medicine.
It can block the flow of bile and cause the gallbladder to become inflamed or distended. Kazmierski in a article in the American Journal of Surgery. Tsung-Chun Lee and three colleagues from the National Taiwan University Hospital in Taiwan, writing in the American Journal of Medicine in October , fortunately porcelain gallbladder is rare, occurring in less than one in every gall bladder patients requiring hospitalization.
Gallstones are crystalline bodies formed within the gallbladder. The gallbladder is a small and rather pear-shaped organ beneath the liver on the right side of the abdomen. The gallbladder is only about 3 inches 7. The liver manufactures bile which is stored in the gallbladder. The gallbladder contracts and releases the bile into the intestines greatly assisting digestion by helping to break down fats in food.
The medical term for a gallstone is a choleith. The other 20 per cent of gallstones are pigment stones since they are made up mostly of bilirubin, a reddish-yellow pigment, and calcium salts. A gallstone can be the size of a grain of sand or as large as a golf ball. They can occur one at a time or many together - even in their thousands. At that rate there are 25m people with gallstones in the US, 5m in the U. Gallstones may form in one of three ways: when bile contains more cholesterol than it can dissolve, when there is too much of certain proteins or other substances in the bile that causes cholesterol to form hard crystals, or when the gallbladder does not contract and release bile regularly.
Most of the time gallstones are painless. Each year, just in the US, symptomatic gallstones trigger serious health problems, cause some , hospitalizations, and result in more than , operations. Stephen Juan, Ph. Email your Odd Body questions to s.
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