Biliary dyskinesia is a functional disorder that occurs when your gallbladder (a small pear-shaped organ that stores and processes) can't contract and release bile effectively. Bile is important ...

This condition occurs when gallstones block the cystic duct—the duct that helps bile ... as a cholecystectomy) for serious cases of gallbladder pain. This procedure is one of the most common ...

In some patients, however, even after extensive ... wound infection, bile duct injury, or bile leak) occur in about 2% of cases. If patients who have undergone empiric cholecystectomy suffer ...

Cholecystectomy (ko-luh-sis-TEK-tuh ... which usually lasts 2 hours or less. After surgery, bile flows from the liver (where it is made) through the common bile duct and into the small intestine.