However, when bile ducts become obstructed, often by a gallstone, it can cause intense pain and discomfort. Gallstones arise from hardening of substances in the bile, such as cholesterol.

Hirschsprung disease and meconium ileus both disrupt bowel movements and can require urgent medical attention. The two conditions have different causes and treatments. Hirschsprung disease happens ...

Cattle gallstones have been used for millennia in Chinese medicine, most often to assist stroke victims. And it's got some bonafide science to back it up. However, over the last decade or so ...

BARRETOS, Brazil—In the dead of night at a slaughterhouse in Brazil’s southeastern farming belt, a group of men splattered in blood gathered around the entrails of a cow to see if they had hit ...

Bile emulsifies dietary fats by increasing their exposure to digestive enzymes. However, sometimes gallstones form and cause problems. Gallstones affect up to 15% of the US population and are the ...

Gallstones are relatively common, affecting about 10 percent of adults. But only 20 percent of these cases are large enough to cause problems and require further treatment. A gallstone is a hard ...

Demand for ox gallstones in Hong Kong has risen significantly following the Covid-19 pandemic, with a US trade report showing the rare medicinal ingredient’s import value has increased nearly ...

Gallstones are one of the most common causes for patients to attend the hospital in an emergency with abdominal pain. Gallstones form in the gallbladder and comprise cholesterol and bile pigments.

THE combination of gallstone ileus, volvulus of the small intestine, incarcerated femoral hernia and diffuse peritonitis is sufficiently unusual to warrant a report. The probable sequence of ...

The figure was created using BioRender.com. Gallstone disease is a common condition, affecting approximately 10-20% of the global adult population. Of these, about 20% develop symptomatic disease ...

Gallstones and ileus were less likely for patients prescribed most of ... Gastroenterology, Neurosciences, and Radiology. She has completed her Bachelors in Biomedical Sciences from DU and then ...

Abdominal CT showed pneumobilia in the right lobe of the liver (Figure 1E), an ectopic gallstone in the distal ileum (33 mm × 22 mm; Figure 1F), small bowel obstruction (Figure 1G), as well as a ...