Changes during pregnancy can affect the functioning of the gallbladder. Although not all pregnant women will affect the gallbladder, if it does involve the gallbladder, it can cause symptoms and complications affecting the baby in the womb. Especially the situation of pregnant women with gallstones during pregnancy.

Gallstones are common, especially in middle-aged women who are overweight or have high blood cholesterol levels. Usually, if gallstones are small and painless, surgery is not needed. In contrast, when gallstones cause pain, emergency surgery or cholecystectomy is often indicated. So how to recognize the signs of gallstone pain for timely treatment?

In abdominal surgical emergency, hepatobiliary emergency ranks second, mainly complications of gallstones. The emergency complication of gallstones is considered a very difficult disease, especially in terms of management, with many complicated disorders caused by gallstones, including common bile duct stones.

After surgery, the patient still eats normally because there is still enough bile from the liver through the bile duct to go down to the intestines to help with digestion, normal activities and work, the husband and wife relationship is not affected, does not reduce life expectancy, does not need to be treated. take other digestive aids.

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is an endoscopic technique used to investigate and treat diseases of the biliary tract, pancreatic duct, and gallbladder. The bile ducts are the tubes that carry bile from the liver and gallbladder; The pancreatic duct carries pancreatic juice from the pancreas. Both of these tubes empty into the duodenum, which is the first part of the small intestine. So how is endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography performed?

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is an endoscopic technique of duodenum under X-ray light to diagnose and treat a number of diseases of the biliary tract and pancreas. The technique is conducted to insert a catheter into the biliary tract or pancreas through a duodenoscope, through which contrast is injected into the biliary tract or pancreas for the purpose of diagnosing and treating biliary tract disease and pancreatic disease. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is applied in many large hospitals, including Vinmec Hospital. So what are the advantages of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography at Vinmec?

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is considered one of the safe and effective methods for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the biliary tract and pancreas. However, it also causes many dangerous complications affecting the patient's health after this procedure.

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography has many advantages to help diagnose and treat biliary tract diseases and pancreatic diseases. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is applied in many large hospitals, including Vinmec International General Hospital.

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is a safe, minimally invasive procedure to help diagnose and treat a number of biliary and pancreatic diseases. So how is this technique performed, does it cause complications?

Like the endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, SpyGlass is inserted through the patient's throat, through the stomach, into the bile duct and gives a visual image thanks to the deviated design in 4 different directions, the doctor can observe. images at all 4 quadrants of the entire treatment area.

Studies evaluating the effectiveness of the Spyglass cholangioscopy system have reported that visualization directly improves the accuracy of cholangioscopy results and has a positive good predictive value in the evaluation of patients with symptoms of biliary obstruction of unspecified origin.