Overview
If you’re experiencing gallstone symptoms, your healthcare provider will investigate with blood tests and imaging tests. Blood tests can detect inflammation, infection or jaundice and offer clues to which organs are affected. Imaging tests will help locate the source of the blockage in your biliary tract.
What tests can detect gallstones?
Your provider will begin with an abdominal ultrasound, which is a quick and easy test that doesn’t require any preparation. An ultrasound can find most gallstones in and around your gallbladder. But if a gallstone is stuck somewhere else in your biliary tract, you may need another kind of test to find it.
Other possible tests include:
- MRCP (magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography).
- HIDA scan.
- Endoscopic ultrasound.
- ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography).
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