Santiago Horgan, MD, chief of minimally invasive surgery at UC San Diego Health System, was the first surgeon in the U.S. to remove a gallbladder through a patient’s belly button, according to a UCSD ...

Recovery from gallbladder surgery is usually quick and has few complications. You can live without a gallbladder while making some changes to your diet or lifestyle. Gallbladder removal surgery ...

Gall bladder removal is commonly done through a few tiny incisions and several laparoscopic tools, but Dr. Jerry Stirman at Rex Hospital can do the procedure with one tiny incision in the belly button ...

Cholecystitis is inflammation of the gallbladder. Doctors usually treat cholecystitis by surgically removing this organ, known as a cholecystectomy. Cholecystitis is inflammation of the gallbladder, ...

Lurking half-hidden behind the lower edge of the liver, the pear-shaped gall bladder serves as a storehouse for an essential substance—the thick, greenish bile (or gall) that the liver manufactures to ...

Single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy (SILC) has emerged over the past decade as an evolution of standard multi-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy, seeking to reduce visible scarring and ...

SANANTONIO -- Gall bladder disease is so common in San Antonio that our city is considered the gall bladder capital of the United States. Now, one local surgeon is using a new technique to treat the ...