(1) It happens frequently in the middle-aged and old females. Most of these patients are obesity and have preference for greasy food.
(2) It is manifested by pain in the right upper abdomen, aversion to cold, fever, and jaundice in the skin and sclera.
(3) Obvious tenderness in the right upper abdomen below the xiphoid process can be seen in the abdominal examination, and even rebound pain and muscular tension, and palpable enlarged gallbladder with tenderness. Click here to learn Chinese medicine Treatment for Gall-Stone.
(4) The pain in the right upper abdomen can radiate to the right shoulder and back, accompanied by poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, and even the shock symptoms of chills, fever, delirium, coma and decreased blood pressure, when the condition develops further.
(5) The outline and size of the gallbladder and whether there is cholangiectasis and the position and size of stone can be shown clearly in ultrasonic examination. The obviously enhanced total count of leukocyte and neutrophil ratio can be seen in the laboratory examination in the patients of acute stage. In the obstruction of the biliary ducts, serum bilirubin and serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase can be elevated in the hepatic examination of the patients.
