ALLMedicine™ Biliary Disease Center

Aug 1st, 2021 - Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a liver disease characterised by necrotico-inflammatory lesions of hepatocytes, the presence of specific autoantibodies and response to corticosteroid treatment. AIH must be considered in any patient with acute or chr...

Jul 11th, 2021 - Type I autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) and IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis (IgG4-SC) belong to the IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) spectrum. Both entities respond to glucocorticoids, but iatrogenic toxicity associated with prolonged steroid thera...

Apr 8th, 2021 - Choledocholithiasis is a common complication of cholelithiasis, occurring in up to 18% of patients. Multiple treatments are often performed during the course of the management of choledocholithiasis, sometimes without success. Our study was perfor...

Apr 5th, 2021 - Accrued comorbidities are perceived to increase operative risk. Surgeons may offer operative treatments less often to their older patients with acute complicated calculous biliary disease (ACCBD). We set out to capture ACCBD incidence in older pat...

Mar 10th, 2021 - Liver and biliary disease complicates pregnancy in varying degrees of severity to the mother and fetus, and anesthesiologists may be asked to assist in caring for these patients before, during, and after birth of the fetus. Therefore, it is import...

Aug 1st, 2021 - Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a liver disease characterised by necrotico-inflammatory lesions of hepatocytes, the presence of specific autoantibodies and response to corticosteroid treatment. AIH must be considered in any patient with acute or chr...

May 6th, 2019 - Although right upper quadrant pain is a very common clinical presentation, it can be nonspecific. However, acute cholecystitis is very often the diagnosis of exclusion. This review focuses on the recommended imaging evaluation in the most commonly...

Jan 12th, 2013 - In 2007, the Tokyo Guidelines for the management of acute cholangitis and cholecystitis (TG07) were first published in the Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery. The fundamental policy of TG07 was to achieve the objectives of TG07 through t...

Jul 25th, 2012 - The Tokyo Guidelines for the management of acute cholangitis and cholecystitis were published in 2007 (TG07) and have been widely cited in the world literature. Because of new information that has been published since 2007, we organized the Tokyo ...

Jul 22nd, 2019 - Acute biliary disease comprises a significant proportion of surgical presentations in Accident and Emergency departments (A&E), as well as of emergency surgical admissions to secondary care. Historically, this patient group first undergoes an abdo...

Jan 25th, 2018 - The current goal in the treatment of Alcoholic Liver Disease (ALD) is to manage ALD-associated complications as there are no disease-specific therapies. Identifying disease-specific therapies to slow ALD progression is critical to improving the ou...

Jan 13th, 2017 - Analysis of patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP group) and biliary disease (BD group) in Changhai Hospital from January 2011 to May 2015 were conducted. Difference of PEP incidences between BD group and CP group, as well as between M-ANNHEIM su...

Dec 14th, 2016 - Cryptosporidium parvum can cause chronic diarrhea and biliary disease in people with AIDS, resulting in significant morbidity and mortality. Highly effective antiparasitic treatment for this infection is not currently available. Paromomycin and az...

Oct 11th, 2018 - PHILADELPHIA — The shift from open bariatric surgery to laparoscopic surgery over the past decade has led to an increase in biliary disease, results from a retrospective study suggest. "Obviously, we don't suggest switching back to open bariatric ...

Jun 5th, 2018 - WASHINGTON, DC — Fundoplication surgery works far better than continuous drug treatment for gastroesophageal reflux disease refractory to proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), as long as other conditions that can cause heartburn are carefully ruled out, ...

Dec 13th, 2017 - Advances in Diagnosing Cholestasis Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) is traditionally the primary method used to establish a diagnosis of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC); however, data defining its prognostic utility are limi...

Jun 17th, 2005 - Case Presentation The patient is a 46-year-old man with a complicated history of biliary tract, pancreatic, and salivary gland disease. Prior to the onset of this illness the patient was healthy. He had no excessive alcohol or tobacco use, no subs...

LOS ANGELES — Elevated serum bilirubin on admission may be a tip-off to a perforated appendix, researchers from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, suggested at the annual Digestive Disease Week. Dr.