abdominal pain headache fever
My gall bladder has biliary sludge. Will I need to have it removed?
About a month ago I had sharp abdominal pain, fever, chills, and headaches. Blood tests showed that by liver enzymes were high. My gall bladder scan showed that it only expunged 14 % of the radioactive isotope they injected in me. The ultrasound showed that my gall bladder has sludge.
Now my blood tests are normal. Most of my symptoms are gone, though I still feel discomfort. I am meeting with a surgeon next week, but wanted to get some opinions on weather or not I will need surgery.
It’s always better for you to make a laparoscopic ablation of the infected gallbladder!
You had already got the cholecystitis (infection of the gallbladder) last month. The cholecystitis can occur without gallstones (acalculous cholecystitis ), only with biliary sludge, that’s your case!
For sure, in the next future the infection will recur because the infected gallbladder is not already removed!
The severe complication of acute cholecystitis is septicemia due to the necrosis of the gallbladder ( In this instance the bacteria will invade the blood stream). The mortality will be very high if the patient is not admitted in a well equipped and highly specialized intensive care unit.
Hope that may help you!
Good luck!
