Symptoms of bile duct stones vary depending on their location, size, and complications. For example, intrahepatic bile duct stones may only cause mild discomfort in the upper abdomen, while extrahepatic bile duct stones are prone to abdominal pain, jaundice and high fever.
1. Intrahepatic bile duct stones: Most of the patients with intrahepatic bile duct stones have no obvious symptoms, and may only have mild discomfort in the upper abdomen. However, if there is secondary infection, it can cause some systemic infection symptoms, such as fever, chills, etc., and can induce shock and other symptoms of acute severe cholangitis.
2. Extrahepatic bile duct stones: patients with extrahepatic bile duct stones have more symptoms of abdominal colic, which can occur in the subxiphoid process or the right upper abdomen, and most of them are paroxysmal episodes, and can be radiated to the right shoulder, back, etc., and can cause nausea, vomiting, and other gastrointestinal symptoms.
However, individual patients may only have a dull discomfort in the epigastric region without obvious pain. Jaundice can be induced after bile duct obstruction, presenting symptoms such as lighter stool color, darker urine color and itchy skin.
In addition, choledocholithiasis may cause some complications, such as acute obstructive pyogenic cholangitis, biliary liver abscess, etc., so the disease needs to be taken seriously. If you have some of the above symptoms or suspect that you have liver and gallstones, you should go to the hospital for examination and get the right treatment in time.