If
people loose a lot of weight whether it is by surgery
or by dieting, you can develop gall stones which require
further treatment, so we are quite aware that weight
loss surgery is a cause of gall stones. Now if someone
has gall stones at the time we are doing the weight loss
surgery we will probably take the gall bladder out as
long as it doesn't make the operation too complicated.
If someone doesn't have gall stones, we will sometimes
take the gall bladder out but that depends on whether
it would make the operation more difficult or not and
it is something that we would discuss individually.
Answers provided by Guy Slater & Shaw
Somers, Streamline Surgical consultants
