Q. I recently had an ultrasound of my gallbladder revealing thickened walls with multiple stones. The only symptom I have is stomach pain on the rare occasion I eat greasy foods. My liver enzymes are ...

Rates of bile duct injury a year after gallbladder removal surgery were lower with laparoscopic procedures than robotic-assisted ones, a retrospective study of Medicare beneficiaries found.

Many women have to undergo gallbladder surgery during pregnancy A gynaecologist explains the risks this can pose to both ...

Laparoscopic or "minimally invasive" surgery is a specialized technique for performing surgery. In the past, this technique was commonly used for gynecologic surgery and for gall bladder surgery. Over ...

The results of a small surgical trial demonstrate that elective transvaginal cholecystectomies are safe and suggest that the evolution of natural orifice surgery is constrained only by the development ...

Dear Dr. Gott: I am a 38-year-old female. I had laparoscopic gallbladder surgery in September 2004. The gallbladder was gray and diseased. There were signs of infection. A week after surgery, I began ...

Laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery in patients with type 2 diabetes, once considered a high-risk procedure, carries a complication and mortality rate comparable to some of the safest and most ...

At MASSH Super Speciality Hospital, 3D laparoscopic surgery is being routinely and successfully used for three of the most commonly performed yet high-impact procedures-- gallbladder stone surgery, ...

Santiago Horgan, MD, chief of minimally invasive surgery at UC San Diego Medical Center, who performed some of the gallbladder surgeries, agrees that the trial has provided the necessary evidence. "We ...