Is Surgery Required For Treating Gallstones?
You should go for planned laproscopic gallbladder removal.
Detailed Answer:
Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.
Firstly when ever there is a stone in gall bladder especially a small one treatment of choice is to remove gallbladder through planned laproscopic surgery because as you know gall bladder is connected to pancreas so if by chance this stone slips into pancreas this may cause acute pancreatitis which is a emergency condition which can even be fatal.
Urodeoxycholic acid is effective in dissolving gall stones in almost 40% of cases only.So its not something very effevtive that too if gall stones are made of cholestrol.Its totally ineffevtive on calcium stones.
So if you take my opinion i am not in favour of conservative management.
Gallbladder as such is a useless organ and having a stone in it keeps my patient at risk of having acute pancreatitis.So i would like you to visit your surgeon and discuss this explaination with him
Hope I have answered your query.
Take care
Dr. Ramesh Kumar, Gastroenterologist