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Query: Hello doctor, I am having right abdominal pain since last five days. I am not getting relief after taking medicines also. My ultrasound says that the gallbladder is distended with a 0.2 inch calculus at the gallbladder neck. The gallbladder wall is 0.22 inch and appears thickened. The gallbladder is... Read Full »
Answer: Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. It is very tempting to treat gallbladder stones with dissolving drugs, but there are some very important limitations, which are, those drugs require up to two years of treatment, they do not prevent the formation of new ones, they cannot be used on all types of stones,Lea... Read Full »