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Gallstone causing pain
My mom started facing severe pain in the right abdomen, she got an ultrasound done. There was a gall stone detected. The report reads: GALL-BLADDER: It is abnormally distended & shows solitary large size of calculus inside the gall bladder lumen, impacted at the neck. Calculus measure: 17.2 mm in size. Its wall outline is normal. No evidence of pericholecystic edema seen. LIVER: It is enlarged in size & hyperechoic in parenchymal echoes. Intra-hepatic biliary canaliculi are not dilated. No evidence of subphrenic collection seen. Both domes of diaphragm are seen to move normally with respiration. Its size measure: 162.0 mm. Attaching the report for reference She is constantly feeling pain effect in the upper abdomen, and sharp pain sometimes near the gall bladder area.. Wanted to know do we have an emergency situation or we can 2-3 days time in order to get her to a place with better medical facilities.
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Its acute choecystitis diue to stone impacted at neck of gall bladder Early surgery laparoscopic cholecystectomy will prevent further complications as pus in gall bladder
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She needs gall bladder removal...
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She needs a Laparoscopic removal of gall bladder.
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