Gallstones are broadly classified into 2 major types: cholesterol stones and pigment stones, with the former type being the most common. 5 They can develop either in the gallbladder or in the bile ...

drained during ERCP, the authors analyzed the possible anatomical biliary variants. 13, 14 The most frequent variant is the right anterior hepatic duct joining the right posterior hepatic duct before ...

That pain only got worse when I drank alcohol. Even though I was only a social drinker I started to get terrible hangovers ...

Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a progressive scarring of the liver's bile ducts. According to current estimates, between 5 and 16 in every 100,000 ...

The presence of stones within the common bile duct. Treatment for choledocholithiasis is a procedure called endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), in which a flexible tube with a light ...

Jaipur: CM Bhajan Lal Sharma announced on Wednesday that Parvati-Kalisindh-Chambal-Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (PKC-ERCP) Link Project has been renamed Ramjal Setu Link Project (RSLP ...

A B.C. principal has been suspended after giving permission to a school employee to restrain a student with duct tape. Renee Dawn MacCormack was an elementary school principal in the southeast ...

More frequent grey-colored poop could be a sign of an issue with the liver, gallbladder, or bile ducts. It's important to get a timely diagnosis from a healthcare provider for grey poop that ...

A coroner has written to the chief of Ipswich Hospital following the death of an Ipswich mum. Denise Johnson, who was a mother to three and a grandmother-of-one, died in Ipswich Hospital on ...

Doctors in the UK are hoping to transform the lives of people with deadly bile duct cancer. A new study – which has shown promising early results – matches the patient’s tumour to one or ...

relative high stone recurrence rate although a final cholangiogram was obtained to confirm the bile duct clearance for every patient, and f) significant number of patients were lost to follow-up.

FOR the 6,000 people in the UK who are newly diagnosed with bile duct cancer every year, the prognosis is uniquely grim. According to data from Cancer Research UK, up to 70 per cent of all these ...