Introduction Current evidence supporting the utility of endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary drainage (EUS-BD) as a first-line treatment option for malignant biliary obstruction (MBO) is limited. We ...
Clinically diagnosed pruritus significantly affected fatigue and antidepressant use in adults with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), based on data from nearly 5000 patients presented at The Liver ...
Marcus T. T. Roalsø, specialty registrar and research fellow. The author has completed the ICMJE form and declares no conflicts of interest. Lars Karlsen, specialist in internal medicine and ...
Ahead of New York Fashion Week, Gilead Sciences is strutting its marketing stuff to raise awareness of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC). The pharma—which earned the FDA’s accelerated approval for PBC ...
Although PSC has no cure, you can manage liver damage with early diagnosis and treatment. Here’s how PSC and UC are connected, and what you can do if you have both. Like UC, PSC is a chronic ...
Findings showed a statistically significantly greater proportion of saroglitazar-treated patients achieved a biochemical response vs placebo (treatment difference, 48.5%; P .001). Topline data were ...
Bile, produced in the liver and stored temporarily in the gallbladder, is released into the small bowel on eating fatty food. The common bile duct is the tube through which bile flows from the ...
Cholangitis and cholecystitis are two conditions that share some similarities but have different causes and symptoms. Cholangitis affects the bile ducts, while cholecystitis affects the gallbladder.
Background: This study aimed to develop and validate a predictive model integrating radiomics features and clinical variables to differentiate intrahepatic bile duct stones with cholangitis (IBDS-IL) ...
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 ...
Jay N. Yepuri, MD, MS, FACG, is a board-certified gastroenterologist and member of the Digestive Health Associates of Texas Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Primary sclerosing cholangitis ...
At the time of physical examination, about 40% of patients report skin issues, such as dry skin, hyperpigmentation, xanthelasma, xanthomas, jaundice, dermatographism, and fungal infection of the feet.
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