Several million cholecystectomies are performed every year in the world.
On the other hand, a tiny group of people exist which lack the gallbladder from birth and which may serve for comparing and prognosing. Moreover, there are several species of mammals evolved that divorced with the gallbladder from the Pleistocene or earlier. Why and how do they live, forage, and do they have any physiological features that may be a reason for concern for us, human beings?
Dear colleague,
Thank you very much for this profound answer!
Of course, I have read your article already when I asked the question, and I did not expect (and this is honour for me) that you personally were that one who give an answer.
My article on the GBA is to be published in a journal 'Annaly Khirurgicheskoy Gepatologii' (Moscow) in the end of this or in the beginning of next year, so that I invite you, in my turn, to read my article. A summary is in a docx. file below.
Thank you again!
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