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Gallbladder disease one of the most common problems in the world
just in the United States around 10 to 15 percent of population they have
gallstones
basically the gallbladder is a small organ which sits underneath the
liver which helps as digest fat
the common experience when people first realize they have problems
is they may eat some fat they may have a hamburger french fries or
ice cream and they notice soon after that that they get a pain in the upper
abdomen and it may go into their back
or up into the chest sometimes that experience those symptoms are
misdiagnosed as heart problems
and so patients often are sent to the emergency room when
an ultrasound is performed which is one of the primary tests for
diagnosing this we often will find gallstones
gallstones are small little crystals which can form
large stones or they can be very small like the size of caviar
Those are often associated with the symptoms of what we call
cholecystitis
or biliary colic which are both descriptions of the pain or infection
that one can experience with the gallbladder once that diagnosis is made
then the patient needs to be counseled about getting their gallbladder removed
ninety-nine percent of people who have the gall bladder removed
never notice it being missed there's a small percent of people who may have
some problems which can be alleviated with simple pills taken daily
opener traditional gallbladder removal
to a large incision and abdominal wall is essentially
the operation of the past
recently we perform laproscopic or minimally invasive surgery
for removal of the gallbladder using a new modality
called Da Vinci robotic surgery system this
Da Vinci robot allows us to perform the operation through a single incision
and that has potential improvement even
better than laparoscopic operations as far as the even less pain after
the surgery and essentially a scarless operation
miVIP is an outpatient surgery center which has
access to their own Da Vinci robot one of the the advantages I find in the surgery
center over a hospital
is that the general atmosphere is a little bit more appealing
it's geared specifically for outpatient surgery
it's a fully functioning operating room the staff, the pre-operative area and the
waiting area
lobby everything is just geared for an outpatient
environment and experience