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URQ pain
I have had URQ pain for the last 2 mornings. This has been sudden and usually lessens and disappears during the day. Im fine when i go to bed but when i wake up this pain is back. I have mulitple health problems including pulmonary hypertension, asthma, a porcelain gallbladder and diabetes. Not sure what this is but any information would help.
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"Porcelain gallbladder is associated with gallbladder cancer, but the precise nature of the association is uncertain. [As far as I can tell this still seems to be under debate - Kaneda2112] Two review articles examined the association between cancer of the gallbladder and calcified gallbladder. One study reported an incidence of gallbladder cancer of about 1% in patients with calcified gallbladder.[citation needed] Another study found that of 69 calcified gallbladders, 3 of them contained cancer.[1][2]
Symptoms
Symptoms can include abdominal pain (especially after eating), jaundice, and vomiting. First symptom to appear is Jaundice followed by Right upper quadrant pain.
Recommended treatment is surgical removal of the gallbladder, although laparoscopic cholecystectomy is contraindicated in this case because of fear of seeding of cancer cells in the trochar sites."