Calculous cholecystitis is a gallbladder inflammation that occurs due to the presence of gallstones (cholelithiasis). These gallstones can block the cystic duct, the channel through which bile ...

Your body’s biliary system encompasses your bile ducts, gallbladder, and the associated digestive structures. This system works together to move bile, also called digestive fluid, through your ...

The left and right hepatic ducts come together outside the liver, forming the common hepatic duct. It’s connected to your gallbladder by the cystic duct. These ducts move bile from your liver to ...

Gallbladder pain is often caused by gallstones blocking the cystic duct, though it can also be triggered by inflammation. Other causes, such as infection, are possible. The pain can be sudden and ...

Much of the bile flows into the cystic duct and enters the gallbladder for storage. Biliary colic may occur if gallstones that form in the gallbladder get stuck, even temporarily, and prevent bile ...

While rates of bile duct injury were similar with robotic-assisted cholecystectomy and laparoscopic cholecystectomy among ...

Cystic duct closure in fenestrating procedures reduced ... as part of a larger surgery or had cancer of the liver, pancreas, gallbladder, or bile duct. "Given no notable difference in ...

While they don’t always produce symptoms, gallstones may eventually obstruct the cystic duct (the tube allowing bile to flow to the intestines), leading to a painful episode or gallbladder ...

The most common cause of acute cholecystitis is gallstones (calculous cholecystitis) blocking the duct that drains the gallbladder (cystic duct). This means bile cannot drain from the gallbladder, ...

Included in this prospective study cohort were all patients with CBDS and gallbladder stones treated ... In the majority of LTSE patients, the cystic duct was narrow and needed to be dilated.

The gallbladder is a little organ that sits beneath ... Cholecystitis is essentially caused by obstruction of the cystic duct ...

In Panel C, at 1 hour after tracer injection in a patient with acute cholecystitis and obstruction of the cystic duct, there is filling of the bile duct (arrow) but no filling of the gallbladder.