Patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) were six times more likely to have had gallstone disease within the year prior to diagnosis than non-cancer patients, suggesting gallstones could ...

Why has this 70-year-old woman with gallstones had abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting for the past 3 days? That is the diagnostic dilemma faced by Francesco Pata, MD, PhD, of Università della ...

What Are the Symptoms of Gallstones? Gallstones may or may not cause symptoms. In fact, you likely won't know you have them until one gets stuck in one of your ducts, which are the tubes that carry ...

How Do I Know if I Have Gallstones? If your symptoms suggest a gallstone problem, your doctor might first examine your skin for jaundice, and then feel your abdomen to check for tenderness. A blood ...

The pathogenesis of cholesterol gallstone disease (CGD) has long been an enigma. During the first half of the last century, cholelithiasis was regarded to be due to gallbladder inflammatory disease, ...

Gallbladder pain is often caused by gallstones blocking the cystic duct, though it can also be triggered by inflammation. Other causes, such as infection, are possible. The pain can be sudden and ...

A new meta-analysis, using data from hundreds of thousands of individuals, finds that gallbladder disease and heart disease are more intertwined than previously thought. The reasons behind this ...

(A) ABC transporters: The normal functioning of ABCG8/ABCG5, ABCB4, and ABCB11 enables the transport of cholesterol, bile acids, and lipids into bile (left). Mutations in any of these result in ...

Doctors typically recommend medication or surgery to treat gallstones. But certain dietary choices may help prevent gallstones from forming. Gallstones are hard deposits that form in your gallbladder.

Sticky meshworks of DNA and proteins extruded by white blood cells called neutrophils act as the glue that binds together calcium and cholesterol crystals during gallstone formation, researchers ...

The gallstone market is focused on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of gallstones—solid deposits that form in the gallbladder due to imbalances in bile composition. The market encompasses ...