Its location is precisely under the right lobe of liver , more or less on right of midline of abdominal cavity. It acts as storage and concentrating sac for bile produced by the liver(hepatic) cells. As we all know that bile is juice , needed for the digestion and easy absorption of fats , fat soluble vitamins, and to neutralize acidity of partly digested meals.
It is common seat of disease processes, effecting ,fatty fertile female of forties and plus.
The most common of ailments that originate is gallbladder stone, technically termed ,cholelithiais, and resulting from an imbalance between the elements comprising bile.
Most of the cases are symptomatic, but some are detected on routine sonograms. The symptoms, range from severe acute or recurrent pain on right side of abdomen ,known as billiard colic, with or without rise in temperature.
The gallbladder stone can become a chronic or illness of long standing, giving a new face to a pre-existing condition, now termed cholecystitis. Although pain occurs with same intensity but in this happening ,it is accompanied by vomiting, fever and diarrhea. Although cholecystitis can develop in the absence of any gall stones, it is less common a feature. In either of situation ,pre-surgical antibiotics treatment is also needed to clean the infected organ of bacteria and thence avoiding complications.
The treatment of choice in both condition is ultimately, removal of gallbaldder, as at present time cholecystectomy(removal of gallbladder) involves lesser surgery than it was few years back. This can be done either as by traditional open method or laprotomy, or by laparoscopic method ,in which small holes are made to make an approach to gallbladder.
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