Patient Testimonial
A new mom from Uttar Pradesh gets diagnosed with Gallbladder Stones, receives best treatment in Ahmedabad by Dr. Avinash Tank- Patient Testimonial
Changes during pregnancy can often affect how well your gallbladder works. Mrs. Pallavi Singh, 2 months after giving birth, was diagnosed with gallbladder infection and stones.
Gall Bladder Stone
Gall-bladder is a small organ lying just below the liver on the right upper abdomen. Gall-bladder stores bile (juice formed by liver) and help in digestion of fatty meals. Development of stones in gall-bladder indicates malfunction of gall-bladder and surgical removal of gall-bladder is easily tolerated by the body.
Type of Gall bladder stones:
- Cholesterol gallstones develop when bile contains too much cholesterol and not enough bile salts. Risk factors for cholesterol stones are obesity, women taking estrogen either as family planning pill or for peri-menopausal hormonal supplement, diabetic person and those losing weight rapidly. Healthy lifestyle may minimize the development of cholesterol gall-stones.
- Pigmented stone are made up of bilirubin and risk factors for pigment stones includes hemolytic anemias (such as sickle-cell disease and hereditary spherocytosis), cirrhosis (Liver failure), and biliary tract infections.
- Mixed stones is the most common type seen in Indian-Asian population. They are composed of both cholesterol and salts.
WHAT IS GALL BLADDER STONE SURGERY?
Presence of gall bladder stones may require surgery. Gallstones may be asymptomatic(without symptoms) or symptomatic(show symptoms)
Asymptomatic Gall-Stones: Asymptomatic gall-stones are usually observed. Only high risk asymptomatic patients (those having more probability to develop gall-stone related complications) are advised for surgery. The High risk asymptomatic patients are diabetic, person on chemotherapy & immunocompromised person (HIV).
Symptomatic Gall-Stones: Symptomatic patients should consult to medical expert for surgery. Laparoscopic (Key hole) gall-bladder surgery is a worldwide accepted treatment.
Stone dissolving therapy is ineffective for mixed and pigmented gall-stones and has inconsistent results for cholesterol stones. Inability to identify stone composition and high prevalence of mixed stones, limits the use of "stone dissolving therapy" in Indian-Asian population.
Learn more about Gall Bladder stones- Its symptoms, risk factors, complications etc. here.
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Patient Pallavi Singh Testimonial
Mrs. Pallavi Singh from Uttar Pradesh felt stone pain (usually felt in the lower right side of the abdomen). After meeting with Dr. Avinash Tank she learned that her gallbladder was swollen and she had gallstones and that surgery was required to help with her condition. While undergoing any surgery is in itself a worrying thing for many people, being a new mom and leaving her child for a few days in order to undergo siad surgery is even more nerve wrecking. However, Dr. Tank explained the procedure well and took care of the surgery with no complications. Mrs. Singh was able to go home the next day.
A week after the surgery, she shared her feedback via following video-
