Lao Cai General Hospital No. 2 successfully performed surgery to open the common bile duct to remove stones and remove the gallbladder.

The team of doctors from the General Surgery Department, Lao Cai General Hospital No. 2, has just successfully performed surgery to open the common bile duct, remove gallstones, remove the gallbladder, and place a Kehr drain.

The patient is Mrs. Tran Thi L., 75 years old, residing in Bao Thang district, Lao Cai province. Mrs. L. has a history of gallstones and bilateral kidney stones for many years. About a week before being admitted to the hospital, the patient had symptoms of epigastric pain, dull pain and discomfort in the right hypochondrium.

She was then transferred from Bao Thang Regional General Hospital to Lao Cai Provincial General Hospital No. 2 for further treatment.

The medical team from the General Surgery Department - Lao Cai Provincial General Hospital No. 2 performed the surgery.

The patient's abdominal CT scan results showed a dilated common bile duct, 17mm in diameter, with many stones located on the common bile duct segment, about 6cm long; the gallbladder wall was thin, with stones 14mm in diameter.

The doctor performed an endoscopy to examine the patient's bile duct.

The doctors consulted and performed surgery to open the common bile duct to remove stones, remove the gallbladder and drain the patient's Kehr. The surgery was successful after more than 1 hour.

Kehr drainage after biliary stone surgery has a high success rate. This method not only helps remove all stones from the body but also helps monitor the patient's biliary condition.

After 2 days of surgery, the patient's health was stable and he could be discharged after 2 weeks of treatment.

Gallstones are one of the most common surgical diseases, second only to appendicitis in the group of digestive tract diseases. Gallstones can appear in the gallbladder, intrahepatic or extrahepatic bile ducts, but are most common in large bile ducts. When stones grow to a large size, causing obstruction, inflammation of the bile duct and potentially dangerous complications, doctors must prescribe surgery to ensure the patient's safety.

If bile duct stones are not diagnosed and treated thoroughly, they will lead to a number of dangerous complications such as: cholangitis, cholecystitis, acute pancreatitis, risk of gallbladder necrosis, peritonitis or sepsis...

Doctors recommend that people with symptoms such as: pain in the upper right abdomen, abdominal pain that comes and goes, sometimes spreading to the back or shoulder, high fever, jaundice, pale stools. Symptoms that recur frequently, sometimes subside on their own, require a visit to a medical facility for timely examination and treatment.

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