cholecystectomy

The treatment (which you would describe as treating only the symptoms) is to remove the gallbladder, a cholecystectomy.

The paper is a small, single-centre RCT of one specific surgery (laparoscopic cholecystectomy).

Who takes the blame when a patient has a bile leak or dies from a cholecystectomy?

A group of researchers found that for a surgical technique called a laparoscopic cholecystectomy, about half the videos showed unsafe maneuvers.

Furthermore, approximately 30% of cases of assumed biliary colic do not improve with cholecystectomy, as the pain has been falsely attributed to the stones or gallbladder.

About to go abroad again to have a cholecystectomy.

Cholestyramine, for example, is a quality of life necessity for some patients following cholecystectomy, but there'll never be widespread acceptance by surgeons since its not their area.

I had a cholecystectomy a few years ago and had a complication that caused a gallstone to get lodged in my common bile duct after removal.

I had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy in Thailand for $250.

Anecdote: two people close to me have undergone cholecystectomy, and both developed IBS-D shortly following the operation; cholestyramine (essentially a powdered resin that absorbs bile in the the GI tract) proved to be a safe treatment.

I think I'm conflating the stats for negative appendectomy and the willingness to go to surgery without positive imaging in that setting with the ~30% of cholecystectomy cases that don't improve with surgery.

I have been sedated a few times for minor procedures, propofol, I think, with no issues, and I’ve had a general once, for a laparoscopic cholecystectomy - about as trivial as abdominal surgery comes, only a few hours under.

We don't call a Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy a "gandalf" or "vartafoprodson." We use medically meaningful names.