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Health Encyclopedia: Gallstones And Gallbladder Disease Treatment

Treatment

Acute pain from gallstones and gallbladder disease is usually treated in the hospital, where diagnostic procedures are performed to rule out other conditions and complications. There are three approaches to gallstone treatment.

Expectant management ("wait and see")
Nonsurgical removal of the stones
Surgical removal of the gallbladder

Expectant Management

Guidelines from the American College of Physicians state that when a person has no symptoms, the risks of both surgical and nonsurgical tre...

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Migraine Medication, Medicine

...medications can treat migraines. Some patients with mild migraines respond well to over-the-counter (OTC) painkillers, particularly if they are taken at the very first sign of an impending attack.... Read more »

Hypothyroidism: Complications

...stress, such as infection, surgery, or extreme cold. Certain drugs (such as sedatives, painkillers, narcotics, amiodarone, and lithium) may increase the risk. Emergency treatment is required.... Read more »

Overflow Incontinence

...incontinence include:Tumors.Certain medications (anticholinergics, antidepressants, antipsychotics, sedatives, narcotics, alpha-adrenergic agonists, beta-adrenergic agonists, calcium channel... Read more »

Headaches: Tension: Diagnosis

...been treated.Medications implicated in medication-overuse headache include barbiturates, sedatives, narcotics, and migraine medications, particularly those that also contain caffeine. (Heavy... Read more »

Colon and Rectal Cancers: Surgery

...surgery. However, the patients who had laparoscopy recovered faster and did not need as many narcotic painkillers.Several 2005 studies indicated that laparoscopy works as well as conventional... Read more »

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