Gallbladder Surgery (Cholecystectomy):
Dr. Mohan Koppikar has a very large experience of doing a large no of difficult and acutely inflamed Gall Bladder Surgeries.
Gallbladder surgery is referred to as "cholecystectomy". It is most often the result of gallstones.
These stones cause attacks that include nausea and pain. Patients undergoing this type of surgery will typically have the entire gallbladder removed in order to put an end to the symptoms.
Symptoms of gallbladder disease:
- Severe, ongoing pain in the upper abdomen
- Pain between the shoulder blades
- Pain under the right shoulder
- Indigestion
- Abdominal Bloating
When we eat, bile is added to the food as it passes out into the duodenum. Bile is stored in the gallbladder, which serves reservoir of bile.
When we eat, fatty foods, the gallbladder contracts and pushes extra bile out through the common bile duct and into the duodenum. Bile breaks the fatty material of food into tiny fragments that can be more easily absorbed by the intestine.
Gallstones can block the normal flow of bile if they move from the gallbladder and lodge in any of the ducts that carry bile from the liver to the small intestine.
The ducts include the:
- hepatic ducts, which carry bile out of the liver
- cystic duct, which takes bile to and from the gallbladder
- common bile duct, which takes bile from the cystic and hepatic ducts to the small intestine
The liver produces bile to digest a normal diet. Once the gallbladder is removed, bile flows out of the liver through the hepatic ducts into the common bile duct and directly into the small intestine, instead of being stored in the gallbladder.