Your body’s biliary system encompasses your bile ducts, gallbladder, and the associated digestive structures. This system works together to move bile, also called digestive fluid, through your system ...

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is indicated in both the diagnosis and the management of a bile duct leak following hepatobiliary surgery. In the following case, a history of ...

What Is Metastatic Bile Duct Cancer and Its Causes? Bile duct cancer – also called cholangiocarcinoma – is a rare condition. When you have cholangiocarcinoma, cancer cells grow in your bile ducts, ...

Bile duct cysts are atypical enlargements that develop within your biliary system. They may disrupt the normal flow of bile from the gallbladder and liver to your small intestine. Bile duct growths ...

Congenital hepatic fibrosis is a type of liver disease that is present from birth. It typically affects the function of the bile ducts and the veins that carry blood from the digestive tract to the ...

Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) and Primary sclerosing cholangtiis (PSC) are both progressive bile duct-related liver diseases, with similar symptoms and effects. Both diseases cause the gradual ...

The term choledocholithiasis refers to a condition when a gallstone or gallstones become lodged within any duct of the bile system. The ducts typically involved are the common bile duct, the cystic ...

For the first time, researchers led by scientists from the Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in ...

Unfortunately, most people with bile duct cancer cannot have surgery. Less than 30 out of 100 people (less than 30%) can have surgery to remove bile duct cancer. This is because the cancer has already ...

Scientists have learned more about a genetic disorder that affects the liver; the work also reveals potential new therapeutic avenues for treating the disease, Alagille syndrome. The researchers, from ...

Recently, much attention has focused on IgG4-related disease, which is characterized by abundant IgG4-positive plasma cell infiltration and high serum IgG4 levels. IgG4-related disease sometimes ...