Abstract

Lipitha A.* and Aji Varghese

ABSTRACT

Gallstone diseases are the leading cause for hospital admissions related to gastrointestinal problems. They are most common and costly. Gallbladder is a gastrointestinal organ that concentrates and stores hepatic bile for delivery into the intestinal lumen during the food intake cycles for lipid digestion and absorption, and that it is the organ where gallstones (GS) form, producing GB disease (GBD).[1] Cholesterol gallstone formation is based upon supersaturated bile formation and pigment stones are formed in bile rich in bilirubin. Thus, defects of hepatic metabolism of lipids and organic anions lead to biliary stones.[2]