The diagnosis of PSC is established in patients with symptoms and/or laboratory findings of chronic cholestasis associated with multifocal biliary strictures at cholangiography. Liver biopsy is ...

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation and stricture formation in the bile ducts inside the liver and/or in the extrahepatic bile duct which drains into ...

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a rare, chronic cholestatic liver disease of uncertain etiology characterized by the destruction of the intrahepatic and/or extrahepatic ducts through ...

Only 2% of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) received a cholangiocarcinoma diagnosis, and the diagnosis was not early enough for there to be a survival benefit. In patients with PSC, ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers identified bile duct dysplasia or cholangiocarcinoma in 71% of explanted livers in the indication of ...

Not only does Crohns disease affect the entire gastrointestinal (GI) tract, but its sometimes linked to a liver complication called primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC).PSC is rare, affecting up to 32 ...

Sclerosing cholangitis and primary biliary cirrhosis, which is now called primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), are chronic cholestatic liver diseases, but they differ in their causes, affected bile ...

Recent data revealed that primary sclerosing cholangitis occurs more frequently among African-Americans than previously published studies have shown. “Although these data do not demonstrate that PSC ...

Hepatoblasts differentiate into hepatocytes, large and small cholangiocytes. CK8, CK18, and CK19 are expressed in hepatoblasts. CK8 and CK18 are expressed in hepatocytes at week 6. CK19 is expressed ...

In the U.S., primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), an uncommon fibro-inflammatory cholestatic liver disease that attacks the biliary tree, only affects an estimated 1 to 16 people per 100,000, but the ...