Rates of bile duct injury a year after gallbladder removal surgery were lower with laparoscopic procedures than robotic-assisted ones, a retrospective study of Medicare beneficiaries found.

Cholecystitis is inflammation of the gallbladder. It usually occurs due to a bile duct blockage. Surgery to remove the gallbladder is the main treatment, but other options can help reduce pain and ...

You may have to take some precautions while caring for your postsurgical wound at home. This includes bathing guidelines. Gallbladder surgery is a procedure that removes your gallbladder. Doctors can ...

The machines continue to rise. Researchers used artificial intelligence (AI) to train a robotic program to do parts of a gallbladder removal surgery, or a cholecystectomy. The robotic surgeon ...

The gallbladder removal procedure is complex, a minutes-long string of 17 tasks. The robot had to identify certain ducts and arteries and grab them precisely, strategically place clips, and sever ...

Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy, SRT-H, performing gallbladder surgery on a pig cadaver. Credit: Juo-Tung Chen, Johns Hopkins University Almost a quarter of all surgeries in the United States use ...

The gallbladder removal procedure is complex, a minutes-long string of 17 tasks. The robot had to identify certain ducts and arteries and grab them precisely, strategically place clips, and sever ...