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What are the long-term effects of gallstone disease?
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Pain, cancer: Associated with pancreatitis and gallbladder cancer and just pain.
Answered 8/15/2012
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Risk of gallstones: Gallstones can remain asymptomatic. They can also cause gallbladder infection, obstruction of pancreas and/or obstruction of liver. The last two can be life-threatening. Surgeons and docs recommend gallbladder removal when the stones are diagnosed and the patient is symptomatic, with bloating, belching, pain. The risk/benefit analysis is typically in favor of laprascopic cholecystectomy.
Answered 11/22/2020
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