Gallstones Center - Bloomfield, NJ
Bloomfield Gastroenterologist Doctors for GallstonesType of Physician: Gastroenterologist What is a Gastroenterologist? A subspecialty certification by the Board of Internal Medicine; practitioners focus on the stomach, intestines, colon, liver, and gallbladder (digestive organs). The gastroenterologist treats conditions such as abdominal pain, ulcers, diarrhea, cancer, and jaundice and they consult with surgeons when abdominal operations are indicated. Specialty: Gastroenterology Common Name: GI Doctor Gastroenterologist Doctors in Bloomfield * Mohamad Ayub Bajwa MD  Louis J Celebre MD  Fiore DeVito MD  The Gastroenterology Group of New Jersey PA  Robert R Gialanella MD  Robert R Gialanella MD  The Gastroenterology Group of New Jersey PA  The Gastroenterology Group of New Jersey PA  Daniel Manzi MD  Montclair Gastroenterology Consultants  Dennis A Tobia MD  Essex Gastroenterology Associates  Harry M Friedland MD  Essex Gastroenterology Associates  Charles S Goldberg MD  Drs Gaymon & Rudd  Gastroenterology Center PA  Drs Gaymon & Rudd  Nina Coffin MD  Theodore DaCosta MD  John N Green MD  Michael Kottas MD  University Hospital Digestive Diseases  UMDNJ Department of Medicine  University Hospital Digestive Diseases  Jennifer Brown DO  Jennifer Brown DO  University Hospital Hepatology Department  Elias M Pascual MD  Mark Waxman MD  Anil Agarwal MD  New Jersey Physicians  Vitaly A Fishbein MD  Sandhya Shah MD & Rajan Shah MD  Essex Gastro Associates PA  Essex Gastro Associates PA  Piotr Huskowski MD  New Jersey Physician  New Jersey Physician  Northeastern Gastroenterology Associates  Masood A Rizvi MD  Joseph M Roth MD & Howard P Gliklich MD PA  Joseph M Roth MD & Howard P Gliklich MD PA  Joseph M Roth MD & Howard P Gliklich MD PA  William J Focazio MD  St Joseph Hospital  Ruby Sampson MD  Renee J Cabaleiro MD  Walid J Baddoura MD  John J Farkas MD  Ashok Gupta MD  Robert A Levinson MD  United Medical PC  R Swami Nathan MD  Passaic County Gastroenterology  Bellardini Kosc & Pavlou MDs  Michael Mainero MD  Passaic County Gastroenterology  Bellardini Kosc & Pavlou MDs  Passaic County Gastroenterology  New Jersey Physicians LLC  Caldwell Medical Center  Robert Eagle MD  Jon D Green MD  Advanced Gastroenterology  Drs McCabe Ruffini & Stefaniwsky  Drs McCabe Ruffini & Stefaniwsky  Rutherford Gastroenterology Associates PA  Subodh Patel MD  Rajender K Arora MD  Affiliates In Gastroenterology PA  Michael Goldfarb MD  Affiliates In Gastroenterology PA  Affiliates In Gastroenterology PA  Affiliates In Gastroenterology PA  Janardhan Bollu MD FACP  Burgos & Burgos MD  Kogan Gastroenterologic Group  Mahesh Desai MD  Ramon A Fernandez-Ledon MD  Ramon A Fernandez-Ledon MD  Pradeep S Mahal MD  Michael Rosen MD  Mehul N Shah MD  Wood Ridge Medical Associates  Alfred W Helwig III MD  Advance Gastroenterology Center PC  Murray Belsky MD  Robert I Greenblatt MD  Center For Digestive Medicine  Advance Gastroenterology Center PC  Drs Sundaram & Sundaram  Patrick G Tempera MD PC  J Luis Delgado MD  Associates In Digestive Diseases PA  Associates In Digestive Diseases PA  Associates In Digestive Diseases PA  Associates In Digestive Diseases PA  Ricardo E Rodriguez MD  Wien Medical Group LLC Bloomfield, New JerseyUpcoming Local Events2012-05-29
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GallstonesWhat are gallstones?Gallstones (often misspelled gall stones, or gall stone) are stones that form in the gall (bile). (The gallbladder is a pear-shaped organ just below the liver and stores the bile secreted by the liver.)
From the common bile duct, there are two different directions that bile can flow.
Once in the gallbladder, bile is concentrated by the removal (absorption) of water. During a meal, the muscle that makes up the wall of the gallbladder contracts and squeezes the concentrated bile in the gallbladder back through the cystic duct into the common duct and then into the intestine. (Concentrated bile is much more effective for digestion than the un-concentrated bile that goes from the liver straight into the intestine.) The timing of gallbladder contraction-during a meal-allows the concentrated bile from the gallbladder to mix with food. Gallstones usually form in the gallbladder; however, they also may form anywhere there is bile; in the intrahepatic, hepatic, common bile, and cystic ducts. Gallst... Recommended Reading Related to GallstonesObesity facts
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