Gallbladder Symptoms

There are a number of symptoms of Gallbladder Disease. Symptoms can indicate a small Gallbladder problem or a large one. Sometimes a Gallbladder disease will not cause any notable symptoms at all.

Biliary Colic

Biliary Colic is a classic gallbladder attack which consists of right upper quadrant abdominal pain. The pain radiates around the abdomen to the back and can last 30 minutes to several hours. Soreness after the pain can last a day.

Cholecystitis

Cholecystitis is a serious gallbladder disease. Cholecystitis means that the gallbladder is suffering from an infection or inflammation that may be caused by an obstruction of the cystic duct. The symptoms are more severe than with biliary cholic and the patients can have fever, chills and elevated white blood cell counts.

Choledocholithiasis

Choledocholithiasis means the common bile duct stones that can drop out of the gallbladder into the common bile duct. Sometimes theese stones cause obstructions n the bile duct leading to jaundice and severe infections.

Biliary pancreatitis

Biliary pancreatitis is when the pancreas is irritated when gallstones pass the pancreatic duct and causes mid-abdominal pain radiating to the back.

Asymptomatic Cholelithiasis

Asymptomatic Cholelithiasis means that Gallstones are forming in the body but do not produce any notable symptom. This is the case for most patients with Gallstones. These stones can be found incidentically during a medical investigation.