Gallstones Research Paper
Gallstones
Definition:
Gallstones are small and hard solids that formed in our gallbladder or bile duct. It is also known as bile stone. Gallstones can be one big stone, many tiny stones or both of them combine together. They can also be as tiny as sand or as big as a golf ball. Gallstones will be formed when chemicals in excess or imbalance in our body. Examples of chemicals in our body are cholesterol, bilirubin, bile salts and more. 80% of gallstones are made up of cholesterol and 20% of gallstones are made up of bilirubin which is calcium and an orange-yellow waste product.
Signs and symptoms:
Most of the people do not feel any pain although they have gallstones in their gallbladder or duct bile. The gallstones that do not cause any symptoms are called asymptomatic gallstone disease or silent gallstones. However, it can cause sudden abdominal pain if one of the bile ducts is blocked by …show more content…
• Heavy drinking alcohol.
• A high diet of cholesterol.
• Smoking.
Diagnosis:
Most of the gallstones do not have any symptoms. Please make an appointment to the doctor for diagnostic testing if you have the signs and symptoms of gallstones. These are the diagnostic test to check whether the gallstones have or not:
Blood tests can help people to check whether have an infection of gallstones in the gallbladder or not.
Computerized tomography scan (CT Scan) allows the doctor to see the condition of the internal organ in the body.
Ultrasound is very sensitive and it has 96% of accuracy rate to look for gallstones.
Cholescintigraphy (HIDA scan) can diagnose the contraction of the gallbladder is squeeze correctly or not.
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is the endoscope inserts into the small intestine from the mouth and the dye is injected to see the duct bile clearly. Dye will show up on X-rays.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used to produce the body’s internal organs without using X-rays.
Treatment:
Definition:
Gallstones are small and hard solids that formed in our gallbladder or bile duct. It is also known as bile stone. Gallstones can be one big stone, many tiny stones or both of them combine together. They can also be as tiny as sand or as big as a golf ball. Gallstones will be formed when chemicals in excess or imbalance in our body. Examples of chemicals in our body are cholesterol, bilirubin, bile salts and more. 80% of gallstones are made up of cholesterol and 20% of gallstones are made up of bilirubin which is calcium and an orange-yellow waste product.
Signs and symptoms:
Most of the people do not feel any pain although they have gallstones in their gallbladder or duct bile. The gallstones that do not cause any symptoms are called asymptomatic gallstone disease or silent gallstones. However, it can cause sudden abdominal pain if one of the bile ducts is blocked by …show more content…
• Heavy drinking alcohol.
• A high diet of cholesterol.
• Smoking.
Diagnosis:
Most of the gallstones do not have any symptoms. Please make an appointment to the doctor for diagnostic testing if you have the signs and symptoms of gallstones. These are the diagnostic test to check whether the gallstones have or not:
Blood tests can help people to check whether have an infection of gallstones in the gallbladder or not.
Computerized tomography scan (CT Scan) allows the doctor to see the condition of the internal organ in the body.
Ultrasound is very sensitive and it has 96% of accuracy rate to look for gallstones.
Cholescintigraphy (HIDA scan) can diagnose the contraction of the gallbladder is squeeze correctly or not.
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is the endoscope inserts into the small intestine from the mouth and the dye is injected to see the duct bile clearly. Dye will show up on X-rays.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used to produce the body’s internal organs without using X-rays.
Treatment: