Background Following a motorcycle accident, a 30-year-old male with multiple traumas—including liver rupture, traumatic fractures, cerebral hemorrhage, hepatic hematoma and respiratory failure—was ...
Acute cholangitis is diagnosed on the basis of the clinical features, supported by laboratory evidence of systemic infection. Imaging is helpful in revealing biliary obstruction and any underlying ...
PARIS — Statins can significantly reduce the risk for complications and death from primary sclerosing cholangitis, results from a Swedish registry study show. Primary sclerosing cholangitis is ...
Effective treatments for patients with primary biliary cholangitis are limited. Seladelpar, a peroxisome proliferator–activated receptor delta agonist, has potential benefits. In this phase 3, ...
If a choledochocholedochostomy (duct-to-duct anastomosis) was done at the time of transplantation, the patient should have an ERCP. However, if the anastomosis was a choledochojejunostomy (roux-en-Y) ...