For those experiencing unexplained upper abdominal pain, doctors recommend seeking medical advice instead of self-medicating ...

Your gallbladder is an organ that helps you digest food. How? It holds onto this thick, greenish-yellow, meal-melting juice called bile, then releases it when you eat. Gallstones, those little ...

Biliary colic (also known as a "gallbladder attack") is abdominal pain that develops due to a blockage in the bile ducts. Bile ducts carry bile (digestive fluid) from your liver to your ...

Isabel recalled her doctor telling her the gallbladder was "going to burst" and was full of "hundreds of stones," even going so far as to compare the enlarged organ to "the size of a golf ball!" ...

Polyps in the gallbladder may not cause any symptoms. Depending on the type of polyps, they can be benign, be a sign of inflammation, or potentially lead to cancer. Polyps are abnormal tissue growths.

Cholecystectomy (ko-luh-sis-TEK-tuh-mee) is a type of surgery that removes a diseased gallbladder. This surgery is usually done as a laparoscopic surgery. The doctor puts a lighted tube and other ...