Mr Anand Verma, FRCS (Gen Surg)
Consultant General Surgeon
Mr Anand Verma (FRCS (Gen Surg)) is a consultant general and upper-gastrointestinal surgeon whose routine work includes laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy, the management of acute cholecystitis, and the stones that lodge in the bile duct. It is one of the commonest operations in general surgery, and also one where the small margin between a routine removal and a serious bile-duct injury rewards care.
He goes over the clinical content on Ayushman Health line by line, weighing the parts that matter most: how the keyhole and open approaches are described, the figures on recovery and on complications such as bile leak and duct injury, when silent stones are best left alone, and the plain account of who should think twice before surgery. Anywhere a sentence starts to read like a guarantee, he tempers it back to what the evidence genuinely supports.
That checking is a mark of accuracy, not a course of treatment. Whether your gallstones need removing, whether keyhole or open surgery suits your case, and what recovery is realistic are questions for a surgeon who can examine you, read your own scans, and follow you up afterwards.
Articles medically reviewed by Mr Anand Verma
- Bile Duct Injury After Gallbladder Removal: How Common It Is, Why It Happens, and How Surgeons Prevent It
- Cholecystectomy Recovery Week by Week: Keyhole and Open Gallbladder Surgery
- Acute Cholecystitis: The Inflamed Gallbladder and Why It Can Mean Urgent Surgery
- Can You Avoid Gallbladder Surgery? Dissolving Tablets, Watchful Waiting and Why They Rarely Work
- Cholecystectomy Anaesthesia: The General Anaesthetic, the Pre-Op Checks and Waking Up
- Choosing a Gallbladder Surgeon: Specialty, Board Certification, Volume and a Difficult Gallbladder
- Cholecystectomy Risks and Complications: Bile Leak, Retained Stones and the Serious Rare Ones
- Diarrhoea After Gallbladder Removal: Why It Happens, How Common It Is and How Long It Lasts
- Diet After Gallbladder Removal: What to Eat, Reintroducing Fatty Food, and the Early Weeks
- Do I Need My Gallbladder Removed? When Surgery Is Advised for Gallstones
- Gallbladder Attack Symptoms: What Biliary Colic Feels Like, the Triggers and the Warning Signs
- Gallbladder Removal Myths and Facts: Fat, Risks and Whether You Need the Organ
- Eating Again After Losing My Gallbladder: My Cautious First Meals and What My Body Would and Would Not Tolerate
- Gallbladder Surgery at What Age: Timing, Younger and Older Patients, and Operating on the Frail
- Emergency vs Planned Gallbladder Surgery: The Hot Gallbladder, Urgent Removal and a Booked List
- Gallbladder Removal (Cholecystectomy): Gallstones, Keyhole vs Open Surgery, Recovery, Risks and Cost
- Gallbladder Surgery Abroad: Surgeon Credentials, Bile-Duct Cover and Follow-Up to Consider
- Gallstones Explained: What They Are, Why They Form, Who Gets Them and When They Need Surgery
- Gallbladder Surgery Scars: Keyhole Cuts, the Open Scar, and How They Fade
- Gallstones in the Bile Duct: Symptoms, Jaundice, ERCP and Surgery
- How Are Gallstones Diagnosed? Ultrasound, Blood Tests, MRCP and HIDA Scans
- Is Gallbladder Removal Worth It? The Pros and Cons from the Other Side
- Keyhole Gallbladder Surgery (Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy): How It Works, Recovery and Risks
- Living Without a Gallbladder: How Digestion Works, What Changes and What Stays the Same
- Life a Year Without a Gallbladder: What Settled, What Stayed Gone, and What I Would Tell My Earlier Self
- How Much Does Gallbladder Removal Cost: NHS, Private, US and Abroad
- My Gallbladder Surgery Recovery, Honestly: The First Week After Keyhole Removal
- Laparoscopic vs Open Cholecystectomy: Keyhole and Open Gallbladder Surgery Compared
- Post-Cholecystectomy Syndrome: Ongoing Symptoms After Gallbladder Removal, Causes and Getting Assessed
- Open Gallbladder Surgery: When Open Cholecystectomy Is Needed, the Scar, Recovery and Risks
- The Gallbladder Attack That Sent Me to Hospital: My First Attack, the Indigestion Mistake and the Diagnosis
- Silent Gallstones: What They Are, Why 80% Cause No Symptoms, and When They Are Left Alone
- The Cholecystectomy Procedure: What Happens on the Day of Gallbladder Removal
- What Gallbladder Removal Won't Fix: Bile Chemistry, Unrelated Pain and Digestion
- Questions to Ask Before Gallbladder Surgery: A Cholecystectomy Checklist