ALLMedicine™ Biliary Disease Center

Dec 1st, 2021 - Cholesterol stones and biliary dyskinesia have replaced hemolytic disease as the primary indication for pediatric cholecystectomy. This study looks at the cohort of pediatric patients with complicated biliary disease, defined as choledocholithiasi...

Nov 13th, 2021 - The derivation of mature functional cholangiocytes from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) provides a model for studying the pathogenesis of cholangiopathies and for developing therapies to treat them. Current differentiation protocols are not e...

Sep 28th, 2021 - Background: Calculus biliary disease is a common condition that requires invasive procedures in complicated cases. The effect of biliary instrumentation on the biliary microbiome and its impact on surgical complications after elective cholecystect...

Sep 19th, 2021 - To systematically review comparative studies on the acute surgical unit (ASU) model. Searches were performed of Cochrane, Embase, Medline and grey literature. Eligible articles were comparative studies of the Acute Surgical Unit (ASU) model publis...

Aug 19th, 2021 - Primary intrahepatic bile duct dilatation can be very harmful to patients although it belongs to benign biliary disease. It can occur in any part of the liver, intraoperative laparoscopic ultrasound (LUS) guidance combine with real-time indocyanin...

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 ...

Apr 22nd, 2021 - Pediatric primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a rare autoimmune biliary fibrosing disease that leads to significant morbidity, the need for liver transplantation in ~50% of patients, and an increased risk for biliary and colorectal cancers in ...

Jul 25th, 2019 - The study was accepted as a Master of Surgery Thesis by Research (MCh) at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) There will be two parallel studies done at the same time: POCUSS-1 for acute biliary disease POCUSS-2 for suspected diverticu...

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 ...

Aug 30th, 2018 - The number of U. S.

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, ...

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...