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 ...

This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Biliary sludge' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A: More than 33,000 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the United States every year. Only 15% to 20% ...

Nat Clin Pract Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2006;3(7):356-357. The cause of acute pancreatitis is easily identifiable in 70–90% of patients. In patients with idiopathic acute pancreatitis (IAP), however, an ...

Patients with sludge- or microlithiasis-induced acute pancreatitis (AP) had significantly lower rates of pancreaticobiliary complications than those with gallstone-induced AP. "The lower complication ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Predicted severe acute biliary pancreatitis treated with early endoscopic retrograde cholangiography with ...

Your gallbladder is one of those organs that you probably don’t think too much about — unless something goes wrong. Its main function is to store bile, which helps the body break down and digest the ...

The gallbladder is a small sac beneath your liver that stores bile and helps with digestion. Typically the gallbladder doesn’t cause too many problems or much concern. But if something slows or blocks ...

The gallbladder also known as "il-marrara" in Maltese is a pear-shaped organ on the upper right side of the abdomen, just beneath the liver. It may be one of those organs that one may not think about ...

If you experience chronic biliary colic and gallstones, surgery may be able to provide relief. Biliary colic is a dull pain in the middle to upper right area of the abdomen. It occurs when a gallstone ...