What is cholecystectomy

Cholecystectomy is the surgical removal of the gallbladder.
It is the most common method for treating symptomatic gallstones. Surgical options include the standard procedure, called laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and an older more invasive procedure, called open cholecystectomy.

A traditional open cholecystectomy is a major abdominal surgery in which the surgeon removes the gallbladder through a 5- to 7-inch incision. Patients usually remain in the hospital at least 2 to 3 days and may require several additional weeks to recover at home. This procedure will therefore leave a right-sided subcostal scar.

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

• Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has now replaced open cholecystectomy as the first-choice of treatment for gallstones and inflammation of the gallbladder unless there are contraindications to the laparoscopic approach. This is because open surgery leaves the patient more prone to infection. Sometimes, a laparoscopic cholecystectomy will be converted to an open cholecystectomy for technical reasons or safety.
• The procedure is usually performed under general anesthesia
• The laparoscope is a long tube with lenses at one end that are connected by fiber optics to a small television camera at the other. The fiber optics also carries light into the abdomen from a special light source. This system allows the surgeon to see and operate within the abdomen
• The laparoscope and laparoscopic instruments with long handles are inserted through the incisions into the abdomen. The entire operation is then performed while viewing the organs magnified on a television screen

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Foods to Eat and Foods to Avoid after Gallbladder Removal

After a cholecystecotmy, it is important to eat foods that will help support the liver, and minimize the workload of digestion. Healthy, unprocessed vegetable oils, particularly those rich in omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids, such as flax seed oil and hemp seed oil, should be consumed on a regular basis.

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Both of these nutritious oils are available in supplement form, or they can be used to make salad dressings; they should not be used as cooking oils. These oils, as well as other vegetable oils such as olive oil, help the body naturally eliminate unhealthy LDL cholesterol build-up. Being of a slippery nature, and liquid at room temperature (as opposed to saturated fats, which are solid at room temperature), unsaturated fatty acids slide through the body's pathways with ease, taking toxins and harmful build-up with them.

Lemon juice and vinegar are also helpful foods to eat after gallbladder removal. The acid helps to break down the fatty acids in digestive bile. Try mixing fresh lemon juice with two tablespoons olive oil in a glass of water. Drink this solution in the morning and in the evening.

A diet after gall bladder surgery should include fruits and vegetables, with raw, fresh, organic foods being the most beneficial. Eat plenty of avocados, beets, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, grapes, apples, berries, and artichokes. They will provide fiber, which the body needs to aid in digestion and help cleanse, as well as the nutrients that the body needs to restore itself after gallbladder removal surgery. Other beneficial foods to eat after a cholecystectomy are yogurt, fish, and cottage cheese. As time passes after the surgery, start introducing whole grains, eggs, and some poultry and low-fat milk.


There are a number of foods to avoid after gallbladder removal, the most important being red meat, which is high in difficult to digest animal protein and animal fat. Also minimize pork, poultry, dairy, chocolate, and refined carbohydrates. Choose foods without hydrogenated or trans fats - this means no margarine, and few processed foods. Fried foods, spicy foods, and soft drinks should be taken out of the diet after gallbladder surgery altogether.

A cholecystectomy may be effective in masking the symptoms of a bile imbalance, but the only way to return to a true state of well-being, and to prevent the formation of more stones is to choose a healthy diet.

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• Gallbladder surgery VIDEO
• Gallbladder cancer treatment
• Gallbladder diet

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Gallbladder pictures

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What peoples says:

Had my GB removed a week ago. Pain lasted a few days but nothing that paracetamol couldn't deal with. Still have the staples which should be removed in 3 days from now. I didn't want this operation but after 4 seizures my wife got fed-up with taking me to the emergency services in the middle of the night and insisted I take the doctor's advice. Feel much better now! Glad I had it done.
If you have a GB stone/s causing you trouble, don't hesitate, just get it done.

PBCaurillac
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had mine done on wednesday. was very sore for 1 day, then the wind trapped inside my body wasa bit awefull. but after just 3 days i can say i am allready feeling alot better. no longer feel like i have poison running through my vaines and feel alot more happy in myself. if in pain get it done. good luck.

wetstocks
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Before you consider doing this operation you should find out what happens when you no longer have this important organ. You need to be rid of the STONES, not the gallbladder. This can be done simply at home with nothing more than epsom salts, olive oil and grapefruit. I had a severe attack of gallstones but refused surgery and got the stones out myself. I am 100% recovered. Google liver cleanse if you want to know more.

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Gallbladder cancer treatment

Nowadays there is almost a consensus that asymptomatic gallstones be only watched and not surgically solved. Reminding that only 1 - 2% of the asymptomatic cases  become symptomatic annually the expectative appears to be the most logical and economical solution. If the symptoms appears to be the most logical and economical solution. If the symptoms appear, a therapy will be initiated.

The symptomatic gallstones will be treated. Most often this treatment is surgical and more rarely treated by nonsurgical techniques. Since the laparoscopic colecistectomy was introduced, the trust of patient into the intervention has increased. It involves a safe intervention, a short hospitalization and minimal postoperatory inconvenient (when the surgeons are well trained in this technique). The uncomplicated cholelithiasis cases are usually treated by this technique, but also the acute cholecistitis or vesicular hydrops. In the scleroatrophic lithiasic cholecistitis or when there is a suspicion of common bile duct lithiasis, the classic technique of open colecistectomy is preffered. In case of common bile ductolithiasis suspicion the exploration of common bile duct is mandatory.

The nonsurgical techniques of treatment of gallstones are the medicamentous litholisis and the extracorporeal lithotripsy.

Medical therapy (gallstone dissolution) is effective in the cholesterol calculi, preferably small, those fill in less than a half of the vesicular volume and when the gallbladder has a permeable infundibulo - cystic zone. The therapy consists in the administration of ursodeoxycholic acid (10 mg / kg body / day) - Ursofalk or its combining with chenodeoxycholic acid (10 - 15mg / kg body / day) - Litofalk for 3 - 12 months, up to the complete solubilisation of calculi. The overseeing of the results is made by ultrasonography.

Extracorporeal lithotripsy consists of fragmenting the cholesterol calculi by extracorporeal shock waves; it addresses to the unique or less numerous calculi, preferable under 15mm. The fragments resulted from lithotripsy will then be solved by administrating billiary acids up to the complete disappearance of all calculi fragments from the bladder. Both nonsurgical techniques are relatively-expensive.

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Gallbladder diet

What to eat when you are afraid of another gallbladder attack, or of eating causing pain.
 

HELPFUL FOODS FOR GALLBLADDER DIET

Green beans - not the same dry
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Sweet potatoes
Avocado - a good way to get needed fats directly to food
Vinegar of all types
Help with the garlic and onion with cleansing the liver, but not treated as types of flakes or powder. But some people find it difficult to digest, so be careful
cold-water fish for salmon, trout.
Lemons (lemon juice in the morning with warm water helps cleanse the liver)
Raisins and organic fruit juice
Apples, berries, papaya, pear
Omega 3 oils like flax or hemp. Use these fresh lemon juice or vinegar in your salad. Do not boil linseed oil.
Vegetable juices - Beet and cucumber are especially helpful to gallbladder You can add other vegetables like tender sprouts, kale, dandelion greens, beet greens, celery, carrots - avoid the cabbage family)
All the vegetables listed above are a good juice. Use baby mixed organic green salad and avoid the bitter greens now.

AVOID THESE FOODS
 

Eggs (Research has shown that eggs caused symptoms for up to 95%. Try replacing gel flaxseed recipes requiring eggs "glue." This is the 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseed and 3 tablespoons water boiling. Leave to cool, and more.)
Poultry (turkey, chicken)
Gluten (wheat, barley, rye, barley, kamut, etc.)
Red meats
Coffee, regular or decaf
Spicy foods
Chocolate
Black tea
Coffee
Margarine
Fried Foods
Saturated fats
Onions
Colas and all sodas

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Cholelithiasis diagnosis

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The clinical diagnosis can be shown when billiary colic or dyspepsia suggests that very often involvementbut billiary gallstones is totally or partially symptoms.

Ultrasonographical paraclinical diagnosis: gallstones appear in a photo hyperreflectogenic and launch the "acoustic shadow".

Symptomatic cholelithiasis, which arises billiary colic (colic billiary is hard or violent pain is part of epigastrum or right upper quadrant of the abdomen, sometimes radiating subscapularis usually continue for more than half an hour). Nausea or vomiting, which appear without colic, which do not cause colic billiary.

The differential diagnosis

• renal colic
• chronic pancreatitis pain
• gallbladder polyp
• gallbladder neoplasm
• billiary sludge
• ulcerous pain

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