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Suggest Treatment For Shrunken Gallbladder

I m 67 years old and overall in good health, last September I got very sick with diahrrea, lost about 15 lbs. They made me do many different test and the results were a shrunken gallbladder, they are also telling me that I may have Crohn s desease. The surgeon wants to remove the gallbladder, and the Gastroenteorologist wants to do a colonoscopy to check the small intestine, I m torn in what can be the best thing to do
Wed, 17 Jun 2015
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HI. In your case not only for being gastroenetrologist me too, but because it seems to me more appropriate, I totally agree with my colleague gastroenterologist: so the first thing to be done if Morbus Crohn is being suspected is the ileocolonoscopy (colonoscopy with passing into the terminal end of small intestine, ileum). Surgery for the shrunken gallbladder has "to wait", because is not an emmergency situation. I hope to have answered your concern.
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Suggest Treatment For Shrunken Gallbladder

HI. In your case not only for being gastroenetrologist me too, but because it seems to me more appropriate, I totally agree with my colleague gastroenterologist: so the first thing to be done if Morbus Crohn is being suspected is the ileocolonoscopy (colonoscopy with passing into the terminal end of small intestine, ileum). Surgery for the shrunken gallbladder has to wait , because is not an emmergency situation. I hope to have answered your concern.