Question | Answer |
How long is the gallbladder? | 7-10 inches |
The gallbladder is connected to what organs? | the liver and duodenum |
The gallbladder is connected to the liver and duodenum by _______ tract. | biliary |
Cystic duct leads from gallbladder to connect to common hepatic duct to form what? | common bile duct (CBD) |
After CBD is formed, then it joins pancreatic duct and enters what? | duodenum |
How many ML of bile is stored in the gallbladder? | 45 (the book says 45) (power point says 50) |
most digestion occurs where? | duodenum |
bile emulsifies fats and neutralizes acids in partly what? | digested foods |
inflammation of the gallbladder | Cholecystitis |
May be the result of repeated attacks of acute cholecystitis or chronic irritations of stones | chronic cholecystitis |
During chronic cholecystitis, why doesn't the gallbladder not empty easily or completely? | becomes fibrotic and thickened |
stones in gallbladder | cholelithiasis |
size of gallbladders | range from a size as big as a grain of salt to 1" in diameter |
two types of cholelithiasis | cholesterol and pigmented (or calcium) |
80% of stones, yellow/green in color, form when too much cholesterol, bilirubin, or not enough bile salts | cholesterol stone |
composed of calcium, dark in color, and cannot see on x-rays | pigmented stone |
gall stones in the common bile duct | choledocholithiasis |
a patient with choledocholithiasis, develops | jaundice and liver damage |
a patient that has choledocholithiasis needs | Medical emergency |
rare but highly fatal, 90% of patients die from advanced stages, severe pain, jaundice, weight loss, and ascites | cancer of the gallbladder |
signs/symptoms of gallbladder cancer | abdominal bloating, recurrent intolerance of fatty foods, steady RUQ pain, Nausea, vomiting, indigestion, belching, jaundice, positive Murphy's sign, biliary colic, clay-colored stools, evelvated WBCS |
inflammation of the ducts | cholangitis |
collection of purulent drainage in the gallbladder | empyema |