ALLMedicine™ Biliary Disease Center

Jun 16th, 2022 - This meta-analysis aimed to compare the incidence of gallstone formation, subsequent biliary disease and the need for cholecystectomy in untreated patients and patients treated with ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) following bariatric surgery. Randomiz...

Jun 13th, 2022 - Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is the standard treatment of biliary disease with high success rates of greater than 90% in patients with standard anatomy. However, alterations in upper gastrointestinal anatomy can significan...

Jun 13th, 2022 - Endoscopy for Biliary Disease Continues to Advance.|2022|Lightdale CJ,|diagnosis,surgery,

May 27th, 2022 - The prevalence and complications of biliary disease increase with age. Frailty has been associated with adverse outcomes in the hospital setting. We describe the prevalence of frailty in older patients hospitalised with benign biliary disease and ...

May 26th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Atrophia maculosa varioliformis cutis (AMVC) is a rare disease that presents as spontaneously formed facial scars in young adults. In 1918, Heidingsfeld [1] coined the disease name to describe the numerous spontaneously formed ...

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 ...

Mar 24th, 2022 - 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 ...

Feb 21st, 2022 - Introduction Cholelithiasis occurs in 10-20% of the general population (1). Up to 18% of these subjects will present symptoms and, of these, 1.5% will present an episode of pancreatitis, cholecystitis or acute cholangitis (2). In this way, the pat...

Dec 15th, 2021 - 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...

Jul 21st, 2021 - Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is the greatest unmet need in modern liver medicine. There continue to be no direct bio-markers for the diagnosis and monitoring of biliary diseases such as PSC, constituting a major barrier to drug development...

Jun 15th, 2021 - Near-infrared fluorescent imaging techniques have shown promise in aiding to delineate and visualize extrahepatic biliary structures. Indocyanine green (ICG) is a water-soluble fluorescent dye that has been shown to improve visualization of biliar...

Mar 28th, 2022 - A certain class of antidiabetic agent was linked with gallbladder and biliary diseases, researchers reported. According to a systematic review and meta-analysis of 76 randomized clinical trials, use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GL...

Mar 28th, 2022 - Treatment with a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist was associated with a 37% increase in the relative risk of gallbladder or biliary disease compared with controls — especially when used at high doses, for a longer time, and for wei...

Feb 16th, 2022 - Gallbladder duplication is a congenital abnormality of the hepatobiliary system and often is not considered in the evaluation of a patient with right upper quadrant pain. Accuracy of the most commonly used imaging study to assess for biliary disea.

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.