What is cck during a hida exam, i've been diagnosed w/a sludge gallbladder?

Cholecystokinin: Cck stands for cholecystokinin a hormone that is part of your digestive system that stimulates your gallbladder to empty when you eat fatty food it is used as part of a hida scan to see if your gallbladder functions normally.

Cholecystokinin: Cck is a hormone that makes the gallbladder contract, squirting bile into the intestine. When a patient has pain, but no gallstones on ultrasound, cck is used to make the gallbladder contract. If the pain is reproduced with cck, the patient likely has a syndrome known as "biliary dyskinesia, " and would likely benefit by having the gallbladder removed.

Cause gb contraction: Patient is injected intravenously with isotope tagged to chemical hida that is extracted preferentially by liver cells mimicking bile. Some of this is stored in gall bladder and some enters small bowel from common bile duct. Cholecystokinin (cck) is a natural hormone slowly injected intravenously to stimulate gall bladder contraction. Normal function has at least 35% emptying of gall bladder.

CCK helps: Cck tells your doctor how well your gallbladder contracts when stimulated. Cck is normally secreted by your body when you eat "fatty" foods and tells your gallbladder to contract. There are ranges of normal for gallbladder contraction.