Gallstone Formation, Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention

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Gallstone Formation, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention describes the current scenario of gallstones and adopted treatment methods. It is a complete reference for researchers introducing new techniques to help prevent extreme treatments such as a cholecystectomy. This reference provides current knowledge and basic challenges of understanding gallstone formation, with all variations of composition including complications of the treatment process. This content directs researchers to focus on gallstone mechanisms to design and develop new treatment methods. The book provides all possible factors for gallstone formation as well as preventative measures. - Offers treatment methods, including both chemical and herbal methods - Presents mechanisms behind gallstone formation that are important to researchers to determine treatment methods that can prevent cholecystectomy - Includes the latest research on acute pancreatitis, one of the major concerns of gastrointestinal disease - Discusses the effects of gallstone as a cancer-causing mechanism

About the author

Dr. Rajani Sharma is an Assistant Professor at Amity University, Jharkhand. She has a PhD in Bioengineering, and her current research interests include microbiology, drug design and discovery, biochemistry, and immunology. Dr. Sharma has extensive research experience in microbiology related to health and drug resistance, and her research studies have found that microbes are prone to mutation which makes them resistant to antibiotics resulting in immunological challenges to humans. Dr. Sharma has organized several conferences, been an eminent speaker holding national webinars, and has won First Prize in oral presentation at the 2020 online International E-Conference on the “Novel Biotechnological Approach to Sustain in Pandemic Scenerio organized by the Department of Biotechnology & Research in India. She has numerous publications, including research papers, review articles, and book chapters. She has edited two books, has five published patents, and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Gastroenterology (IJG).

Dr. Sharma is an Assistant Professor at the Birla Institute of Technology Mesra. She received her PhD in biotechnology and has ~10 years of research experience and published ~11 journal articles and 9 book chapters. She has worked in the optical imaging and image analysis and has versatile experience in different fields of medical microbiology, as she has worked on microbes isolated from gallstones and her research is in the area of gallstone research.

Dr. Ram Prasad is an Associate Professor at Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Bihar, India. Dr. Prasad has served as an Assistant Professor Amity University Uttar Pradesh, India; Visiting Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States, and Research Associate Professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. Dr. Prasad has more than two hundred publications to his credit, including research papers, review articles, and book chapters; has edited or authored several books; and has five patents issued or pending. He’s on the editorial boards of a number of journals, and his research interests include plant-microbe interaction, agriculture sustainability, nanobiotechnology, and applied microbiology.

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