Cook with Cholelithiasis: Marcia Brown is a 42-year-old Pima Indian who works as a cook in a casino in Arizona. She has just been diagnosed with cholelithiasis. She is 5'4" tall and once weighed 210 pounds. One year ago, she underwent gastric bypass
surgery and has lost 75 pounds. For several months, she had been experiencing episodes of pain in the right upper part of her abdomen. The pain usually began after eating and lasted for several hours. Lately she began to experience nausea and vomiting with the pain and began to run a fever. What are the treatment options for cholelithiasis? Explain each.
(1) Surgery – removal of the gallbladder
(2) Ursodiol – dissolves the cholesterol crystals in gallstones
(3) Shock-wave lithotripsy – procedure used to fragment the stones so they can either pass into the small intestine or be dissolved with ursodiol
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