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Do you need to have your gall bladder removed if you are found to have gall stones?
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Do you need to have your gall bladder removed if you are found to have gall stones?

Mr Barkerji discusses whether you need to have a cholecystectomy if you are by chance found to have gallstones but don’t have any symptoms.

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Mr. Bakaji, if you've had gallstones diagnosed on a scan, what they call incidentally by chance, do you need to have your gallbladder removed? Not necessarily. If, let's say during pregnancy, patients have ultrasound scan and they're incidentally gallstones with no symptoms, there is no clear indication that patients should have surgery. Surgery has got benefit but it also does carry a small mobility therefore not asymptomatic stones should be taken out. But if patients have got biliary colic and often when you take a good history you find that actually patients had symptoms but they have not attributed the symptoms to the gallstones then in that situation elective surgery may be beneficial. Thank you.

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