Gallstone Removal Dhaka

• Right upper-abdominal pain after fatty meals (biliary colic)
• Pain radiating to the right shoulder or back
• Nausea, vomiting, fatty-food intolerance
• Yellowing of eyes or skin (jaundice — suggests bile-duct stone)
• Fever with right-upper pain (cholecystitis or cholangitis — emergency)

Diagnosis is straightforward with an abdominal ultrasound, which detects 95% of gallbladder stones. If a bile-duct stone is suspected (raised liver enzymes, jaundice, dilated ducts), Dr. Arefin orders an MRCP for non-invasive bile-duct mapping. Routine pre-op blood work and an ECG complete the workup.

The standard treatment is laparoscopic cholecystectomy — keyhole removal of the entire gallbladder containing the stones. If a stone has slipped into the common bile duct, Dr. Arefin performs laparoscopic common bile duct exploration at the same sitting, or coordinates pre-operative ERCP. Trying to remove only the stones (leaving the gallbladder) is not recommended — stones recur in >90% of cases.

Untreated symptomatic gallstones cause recurrent attacks and serious complications — acute cholecystitis, empyema, gallstone pancreatitis, cholangitis, and (rarely) gallbladder cancer. Elective day-care surgery is far safer than emergency surgery during an attack. Book a consultation early.