gallstone
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Rarer side effects include acute gallstone disease and pancreatitis, and the NHS warns that there is also a risk of hypoglycaemia, which happens when your blood sugar level drops too low.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2025
Her recent gallstone surgery cost nearly $1,500, but less than a third of it could be expensed under her insurance plan, she said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
He was asked whether to remove a gallstone, if it was okay to begin chemotherapy, and whether this was a good time for a root canal.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022
Ginsburg participated remotely from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in 2020 while hospitalized with an infection caused by a gallstone.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
It appears to be a urio-phosphate of lime, and is of a beautiful pure yellow colour and light powdery texture; of greater body and depth than gamboge, but inferior in these respects to gallstone.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
Doctors at a Los Angeles hospital were able to rule out gallstones, and on Tuesday, a representative for the “Goonies” star told The Times that they cracked the case, and Feldman is on the mend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Because the pearls are denser than surrounding tissue and resemble small stones, they can sometimes complicate diagnosis by mimicking kidney or gallstones.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2026
Cases include electrocution, drowning, overdose, scurvy, sickle cell anemia, a nail in the chest, a fastball in the eye and gallstones, with all the personal drama one expects from a hospital show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
The primary symptom of gallstones is agonizing episodes of pain.
From Slate ● Jul. 26, 2025
She examined him, observed his fever, his red eyes, his jaundice, his abdominal pain, and came up with nothing definite, but wondered if he had gallstones or a liver abscess.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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